On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Robert Dodier wrote:
< When I wrote the perl script to compute the offsets,
< there was some Lisp-inspired craziness about byte offsets vs character offsets.
< I seem to recall that the offsets are character offsets,
< but there something else which is a byte count ... maybe the
< amount of stuff to read is a number of bytes, not a number of characters.
<
< I'm pretty sure I did try reading some files with multibyte characters
< (Spanish & Portuguese, I guess) so I wouldn't throw out the
< existing offset/count stuff just yet.
Agreed. Mostly, what I have done is eliminate all the I/O
by using Perl's ability to open a string as if it were a file.
Leo
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