On 05/11/2016 02:04 AM, Daniel Dehennin wrote:
Karl Williamson <pub...@khwilliamson.com> writes:
On 05/09/2016 08:53 AM, Daniel Dehennin wrote:
Hello,
I tried to make my Perl5 code unicode compliant after reading a post on
stackoverflow[1].
As suggested in the post:
“always run incoming stuff through NFD and outbound stuff from NFC.”
I got a hard time finding why my Test::More was failing but displaying
exactly the same strings for “got” and “expected”.
I finally check how UTF-8 sources are handled and found that they are in
NFC form, I run the following script:
[...]
I'm afraid that when it comes to normalization in Perl5, you have to
do it yourself. I hear that Perl6 is much friendlier in this regard,
but I have no personal experience with it. Your $unistring is in
whatever normalization you made it when you typed it into your editor,
or whatever your editor did with it as you were typing. You could
have typed it in NFD, but probably the most natural way to enter
things on your keyboard will underlying it all be NFC.
That's what I finally find out in another post, normally all my inputs
are NFD but my tests used static string to match, I declared them with
NFD to make it explicit.
I added a note in my POD to signal that the sub returns NFD strings.
I forgot to mention that if you're just dealing with collation, it may
be that comparisons actually work properly regardless of normalization,
if you are doing the comparisons within the scope of 'use locale' and
the locale is recognized by Perl5 to be a UTF-8 locale. It depends on
the libc implementation for your platform. There are bugs in Perl5's
handling of these, however, which I have fixes for, and expect to put
into the latest development version, called blead, within the next week
or two.
Normalization is tricky, and the Unicode Consortium has had to modify
things years after they were first specified, because no one could
reasonably implement what was expected. I may tackle getting
normalization to be more developer friendly in future Perl5 versions,
but not in the next couple of years.
Thanks, as soon as my little work project is working well I'll try to
redo it in Perl6.
Regards.
