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[Alasdair Allan]

Mark Taylor wrote:
> Not hard in Unicode-aware languages which use the same escaping  
> mechanism as SAMP does for Unicode characters (Java, Python); not  
> too hard in languages designed for text manipulation (Perl);

Actually Perl is Unicode native as well, has been since Perl 5.8, see

http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.0/pod/perluniintro.pod

> Which of these is best depends on how important the requirement to  
> be able to send Unicode and control characters is.  My vote is not  
> very.  Can we have a show of hands?

Over SAMP? My vote is not very.

Al.