On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 03:08:05PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Patrick R. Michaud
> wrote:
> > * The Unicode character name database [2] has parens in the
> > name property field for many characters
> >
> > 000A;;Cc;0;B;N;LINE FEED (LF)
>
> That's no
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>> According to the 5.0.0 standard, section 4.8:
>>
>> "Unicode character names contain only uppercase Latin letters A
>> through Z, digits, space, and hyphen-minus."
>>
>> So it seems the notes in parentheses are not considered part of th
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:22:18AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:04:03AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
> > Std.pm allows e.g.
> >
> > "\x[ 41 , 42 , 43 ]"
> >
> > For convenience - especially with long charnames - it should be possible
> > to write
> >
> >
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:28:40PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
> > Does anyone know offhand whether the Unicode Consortium has an explicit
> > policy against use of punctuation in a charname? So far they only
> > seem to use hyphen and parens,
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
> Does anyone know offhand whether the Unicode Consortium has an explicit
> policy against use of punctuation in a charname? So far they only
> seem to use hyphen and parens, but I wonder to what extent we can
> depend on that...
>
According to
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:04:03AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
> It's not explicitly specified, if insignificant whitespace is allowed in
> \c[...], \x[...], etc.
>
> Std.pm allows e.g.
>
> "\x[ 41 , 42 , 43 ]"
>
> For convenience - especially with long charnames - it should be
It's not explicitly specified, if insignificant whitespace is allowed in
\c[...], \x[...], etc.
Std.pm allows e.g.
"\x[ 41 , 42 , 43 ]"
For convenience - especially with long charnames - it should be possible
to write
"\c[
SPACE, # blafasel
LATIN SMALL LETT
