Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:16:20PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does the existing perl5.8.* Unicode support have a way to efficently
determine which script(s) or block (in unicode sense) a code point belongs
to?
use Unicode::UCD qw(charscript charblock); print charscript(0x0388); print charblock (0x30a0);
Great.
But that is not good enough for cases below because...
(Hiragana | Katakana | Han) => 'jisx0208.1990-0'
This is very wrong because jisx0208.1990-0 only contains \p{Han} that appears in Japanese (JIS X 0208, to be exact). On the other hand, jisx0208.1990-0 does contain greek and cyrillic alphabets.
One of so many reasons why Han Unification was a bad idea. When it comes to Han Ideographs, Unicode's sense of charscript is almost useless.
\x{5c0f}\x{98fc} \x{5f3e}
