Andrew Mace wrote:
I've noticed that the non-ASCII characters are getting split into their base code points....I thought diacritical marks were always combined with
> their preceding letter, if possible.
You're talking of file names, I suppose. I think you'll find that this is a function of the file system which stores file names in "decomposed" form, for what reason maybe someone else can tell you. It is nothing to do with the behaviour of Perl, and you will find (I think, because I am at the moment working in MacOS 9/WinNT) that it is impossible to create a file named été (decomposed) in addition to a file named été (composed) in the same location.
JD
