It's equally reasonable to call a perl string wide and narrow -- it will certianly fit 16-bit unicode characters (and even 32-bit unicode characters). OTOH, it's not UTF-16.
What I want to know is why Hungerians feel the need to mark all their pointers long (far). When is the last time you used a near pointer?
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