Re: Unicode handling

2001-03-24 Thread Philip Newton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 02:31 PM 3/23/2001 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > >On Friday 23 March 2001 14:18, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > At 01:30 PM 3/22/2001 -0800, Hong Zhang wrote: > > > >We need the character equivalence construct, such as [[=a=]], which > > > >matches "a",

Re: Unicode handling

2001-03-24 Thread Dave Storrs
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 11:41 PM 3/22/2001 +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:10:28PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > hadn't thought of. If we do, then something as simple as this: > >while () { > $count++ if /bar/; > print OU

Re: Unicode handling

2001-03-24 Thread nick
Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:50:05PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> At 02:27 PM 3/23/2001 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: >> > > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > DS> U doesn't really signal "glyph" to me, but we are sort of limi

Re: string encoding

2001-03-24 Thread nick
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >substr($foo, 233253, 14) >> > >> > is going to cost significantly more with variable sized characters than >> > fixed sized ones. >> >>I don't believe so. > >Then you would be incorrect. To find the character at position 233253 in a >variable-lengt