On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:39:16 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> > Something that should be part of the core? I'll leave
>> >that for you to decide.
>>
>>Most definitely NOT.
>
>Most definitely sort of.
>
>>There is no reason to put fucntionality for free matching of Japanese
>>characters into the basic perl executable.
>
>No, you're right. But the core must take into account the capabilities that
>need to be available for comparison and matching of the languages perl's
>going to make at least some effort to support.
If you're saying that the perl core shsould include hooks into the regex
engine for custom character classes, I agree. But nothing more.
Currently, Perl5 provides a hook for "use locale;", but I wish there was
something more general than this, more customizable. For example, I
sometimes have user defined character encodings, that don't follow any
standard. I wish there was a simple, perl-only, way to cope with them.
Also, for example, I would like be able to match "á" with /[a]/, but
without changing the sort order. "locale" is a bit too much "all or
nothing" for me.
--
Bart.
