Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> wrote: > https://www.codesections.com/blog/raku-unicode/
Thanks, yes I was just reading through that. It makes it clear that the "Unicode Character Database" is built-in to the MoarVM, but I'm not that clear what the ICU libraries do for you, and I thought there might be some point in using them for something or other. On 9/24/20, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> wrote: > https://www.codesections.com/blog/raku-unicode/ > >> On 24 Sep 2020, at 20:00, Joseph Brenner <doom...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure myself, but my first guess would be probably not...I >> *think* Raku is doing it's own Unicode thing, and isn't using any >> system ICU libraries (but I'm willing to stand corrected on that). >> >> As far as perl (the-language-formerly-known-as-perl5) is concerned: >> >> That page http://site.icu-project.org/related is a little strange in >> any case. If you follow the links for "perl" it goes to J. Briggs >> personal web page, and if you comb through that there's a link to his >> PICU just in tarball form. He has a CPAN account, but doesn't seem to >> have put this code there. >> >> (On the other hand there's this cpan module that uses the system icu >> libraries: https://metacpan.org/pod/Unicode::Transliterate) >> >> Anyway, I don't think perl has an ICU dependency either, it does it's >> own unicode thing as well (i.e. the Unicode "database" ships with it). >> >> >> On 9/24/20, William Michels <w...@caa.columbia.edu> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I stumbled across the "ICU - International Components for Unicode" >>> website: >>> >>> http://site.icu-project.org/ >>> https://github.com/unicode-org/icu >>> >>> There's a list of programming languages using the ICU libraries here: >>> >>> http://site.icu-project.org/related >>> >>> Should Raku be added to the list above? >>> I see Perl and Parrot listed, but not Raku. >>> >>> Best, Bill. >>> >
