Dear Karl, > >> 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.
Could you use a source filter (man perlfilter)? That would run your script through an NFD converter before executing it. Yours, Martin
