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On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:48:33PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> [2011-05-02 13:40]: > > The whole idea of a grapheme mode leaves a lot of unanswered > > questions. > > It does, doesn’t it. > > > I begin to think that perhaps we should delay multichar folds > > until such time as we have a better understanding of what > > grapheme mode should really mean. I am increasingly less > > certain that this is a functionality in actual active use. > > I just hate to undo something we've been doing, bugs and all, > > for many years. > > Maybe it’d be another option to do multi-char folding only for > ligatures? The expectations are fairly straightforward for those, > whereas they are unclear for all else, and the current behaviour > surprising. Perl could continue to support what has worked and > was unproblematic in that way. Actually, I find all multi-char folding surprising. The fact that /ff/i can match, where /f+/i or /(f)(f)/i doesn't is something I find very hard to accept. AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next