At 16:24 -0500 02.02.2001, Kenneth Graves wrote:
>>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:13:29 -0500
>>From: Ronald J Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>Consider, however, the confusion that would result from:
>>
>>tr/\s/\S/;
>
>Given a locale (or given utf8), there is a specific set of characters
>matched by \s or \S.  Consider them in order, and transliterate
>appropriately.

But you cannot transliterate a regex.  That doesn't make sense.  Use a
regex operator for regexes.  Use the transliterate operator for
transliterations.

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