On Saturday 09 June 2001 06:24 am, NeonEdge wrote:
> Is this Uppercase?
> Is this Lowercase (is this 'half-digits', as Hong mentioned?)
> (if 'Caseless' needed, just "!Upper && !Lower"?)
Titlecase.
> Is this Punctuation?
> Is this a digit?
> Is this a word character?
> Is this Whitespace?
> Maps to opposite case letter X (only upper & lower?)
> Previous character in order
> Next character in order
> (are there languages with character precedence rules that override sort
> orders?)
There are languages where sort order isn't based on character precedence,
but I don't know about your question.
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> Does Perl also need to know (in regard to locale) print direction? Are
> there 'special-case' rules (like in English 'y' can be a vowel, but I'm
> thinking more in the sense of the above properties)?
Print direction only when printing. The data itself is unidirectional.
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