Jenda Krynicky wrote:
>
> Thanks for the \d info, I did not know they were silly enough to 
> include some additional unicode characters in \d, I expected those to 
> be only in the [[:IsNumber:]].
>
> It's really sily as there really are characters that match /^\d$/, 
> yet $char+0 issues a "Argument "..." isn't numeric in addition (+)" 
> warning. And if I look at the characters that match \d it seems to 
> include greek letters!
>
>
> Jenda
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>
>
>   
Greek characters doesn't seem that surprising since I think many of them
have been adopted to represent mathematical constants.  If you cover
enough branches of applied math, however, you could probably throw in a
good amount of the roman alphabet also (I'm speculating), so that easily
gets tricky. 

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