Re: [Slashcode-development] i18n slashcode

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 17:36 +0900 2000.12.27, Shuji Sado wrote:
>Last month, I asked Larry Wall about Unicode(utf8) support facility
>of Perl5.6. (He visited Japan as keynote speaker of LinuxConfrence
>2000 Fall, and I was a chairman of the conference.)  He says,
>the string functions supports utf8 character, but other facility
>is not implemented.  If there is not facility of charset conversion,
>i18n of Slashcode is impossible.

I would rather that instead of doing things like:

> s/[^A-Z0-9\'.]//gi  -->   s/[^A-Z0-9\'. \xa1-\xff]//gi

that we instead focus on using codes like \w and \d, along with using the
locale and utf8 pragmas.  Then, in theory, you can define your locale and
let perl handle the rest.  Aside from utf8 being incomplete right now, and
the utf8 pragma only being supported in 5.6.0 and above, do you see any
problems with this approach?

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