Change 13317 by jhi@alpha on 2001/11/27 14:51:42
Update the 'wide characters' FAQ entry.
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--- perl/pod/perlfaq6.pod.~1~ Tue Nov 27 08:00:05 2001
+++ perl/pod/perlfaq6.pod Tue Nov 27 08:00:05 2001
@@ -641,11 +641,20 @@
=head2 How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
-This is hard, and there's no good way. Perl does not directly support
-wide characters. It pretends that a byte and a character are
-synonymous. The following set of approaches was offered by Jeffrey
-Friedl, whose article in issue #5 of The Perl Journal talks about this
-very matter.
+Starting from Perl 5.6 Perl has had some level of multibyte character
+support. Perl 5.8 or later is recommended. Supported multibyte
+character repetoires include Unicode, and legacy encodings
+through the Encode module. See L<perluniintro>, L<perlunicode>,
+and L<Encode>.
+
+If you are stuck with older Perls, you can do Unicode with the
+C<Unicode::String> module, and character conversions using the
+C<Unicode::Map8> and C<Unicode::Map> modules. If you are using
+Japanese encodings, you might try using the jperl 5.005_03.
+
+Finally, the following set of approaches was offered by Jeffrey
+Friedl, whose article in issue #5 of The Perl Journal talks about
+this very matter.
Let's suppose you have some weird Martian encoding where pairs of
ASCII uppercase letters encode single Martian letters (i.e. the two
End of Patch.
