On Friday 23 March 2001 14:48, you wrote
> In Unicode, there's theoretically no locale. Theoretically...
Well, yes, but Unicode makes no pretenses about encoding the world's
languages - just the various symbols use by the world's languages.
If you want to orient Perl so that it remains(?) data-oriented, even when
processing text, as an independent underlayer to locale processing, then
that's fine, I guess, as long as you aren't forcing *someone's* locale onto
it at that lower layer.
If you want to orient it so that it processes the text as... well, a textual
respresentation of a language, then you'll have to consider locale issues.
At some point.
Okay, now I see Hong's response. Yes, I'm understanding now. Not character
equivalence from a linguistic perspective, but simply
/({base glyph}{combining glyphs}*)/
Okay, I'll go back to lurking.
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Bryan C. Warnock
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