On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:50:24 +0000 John <john.imrie@vodafoneemail.co.uk> wrote: > The moderately good news is that ⅯⅯⅪ should at least be convertible, but > I think if we continue down this route we end up having to be able to > handle all the worlds numerical systems, which frankly I'd consider a > nightmare to handle in the Perl core. This is in fact the whole point I was getting at. Since we don't (I think) want to arrive at that end level, it means that a plain \d should not match any Unicode digit; only [0123456789]. If we want Unicode we'll ask for it. Such as by my suggested /u regexp modifier. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/Thread Previous | Thread Next