On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Bernardo Barros <bernardobarros2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > also python scripts, right? :-) Not so much. Perl is far more trustworthy than Python 2.x when it comes to strange encodings -- Python's troubles with multi-byte character encodings are well known and the scale of change involved to fix them is one of the main reasons for the general shift to Python 3 being so slow. Nobody gets filename encodings right first time in a Python 2 program. Perl switched to Unicode strings in a minor release (5.6, a decade ago), in a way that does the right thing so well as to be practically magic. Disclaimer: though I'm fond of Perl, I wouldn't really go for writing anything big in it if you ever want to read it again. Python is much more maintainer-friendly. In this particular case, though, Perl is very impressive. Chris _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
