Re: More character matching bits

[Damien Neil]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:15:16AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> Or we could keep it out of core. It's up to you, really.

No, it isn't.  It's up to Larry, or to whoever gets the regex
pumpkin.

I'm withdrawing from this discussion: My intent was to clarify
exactly why someone might want to treat Katakana and Hiragana as
equivalent for matching purposes, not to take a stand on what
features Perl should include or how these should be implemented.


> > to write the on-youmi of a Kanji,
> 
> Hrm, no, not usually; furigana are almost always hiragana, and
> learner's textbooks - bah, they're not real Japanese. :)

I believe you are confused; kun-youmi and on-youmi have nothing
to do with furigana.

                      - Damien