On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:53:32PM -0400, Mark Reed wrote: : I think that, in general, at the level of Perl code, 1 “character” should be : one code point, and any higher-level support for combining and splitting : should be outside the core, in Unicode::Whatever. I think the default should be language-independent graphemes, and that support for all Unicode levels below that is in the core, while all of the many level 4 ("use French") modules should come standard, which is core by some definition. Larry