Re: More character matching bits

[Bart Lateur]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:22:32 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:

> Something that should be part of the core? I'll leave
>that for you to decide.

Most definitely NOT.

There is no reason to put fucntionality for free matching of Japanese
characters into the basic perl executable. There were already voices
here, on how to strip Unicode support completely from the perl core,
because these people don't feel like they need it. so this is most
definitely going to far.

If you want to free matching on Japanese text, stuff it in a module. If
you want the same kind of support for Korean, stuff it in another
module. Very few people will need both at the same time. Perhaps it can
even be put into locale...?

But, as a summary: Unicode support in the perl core should be minimal,
so nobody feels the need to strip anything.

-- 
        Bart.