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Re: RFC: \p{Cntrl}
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From:
Abigail
Date:
June 17, 2009 01:56
Subject:
Re: RFC: \p{Cntrl}
Message ID:
20090617085753.GA18177@almanda
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:28:46AM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On approximately 6/8/2009 12:39 PM, came the following characters from
> the keyboard of karl williamson:
>> Guess what the major category C stands for in Unicode?
>>
>> It stands for 'Other', and means characters (code points) that don't
>> fit into anything else.
>>
>> Perl on the other hand thinks it stands for control, and so \p{Cntrl}
>> in Perl is a synonym for the assigned characters in \p{C}.
>
>
> Yep, this could be fixed by using a different letter than \p also, for
> Unicode conforming property names and property values only.
>
> Maybe there aren't any such letters left... could use \p<> instead of
> \p{} (or something along that line).
Currently unused backslashed ASCII letters are:
\F, \i, \I, \j, \J, \m, \M, \o, \O, \q, \T, \y, and \Y
\c, \g, \k, \p, \P, and \x can only be followed by a limited set of
characters, so there's so room for feature usage there as well.
Abigail
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