This article is from 2006.
Perl's unicode support is excellent now. In 2006 5.10 wasn't out yet, and anything before 5.8.5 had all sorts of odd unicode bugs.
Or: Tcl got there significantly before we did.
Perl's unicode support is excellent now. In 2006 5.10 wasn't out yet, and anything before 5.8.5 had all sorts of odd unicode bugs.
Or: Tcl got there significantly before we did.
To be clear, I'm not arguing against using Tcl in favour of Perl or anything else. It's just that my experience with a language with great encoding support doesn't jive with what's claimed here.