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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:50:49AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Unless I'm missing something (Simon? Hong?) Japanese (and potentially all
> the languages that use the Han characters) can interpret a particular
> character as either a number or not a number, depending on context.
Uh, don't think so, no. The numerals are, ooh, let's see:
U+4E00, U+4E8C, U+4E09, U+56DB, U+4E94, U+4E03, U+516B, U+5341, U+5343,
U+4E07 and two more I can't find. The rest aren't (usually) treated as
numbers, no. It's certainly not the case that a given character is both
non-number and number.
> >module Locale::Hawaiian;
> >use re 'class (\w => [aeiou礪銓\xFBhklmnpw`])';
> >...
>
> Sure. I expect Damian will write us something that lets you specify them
> upside-down in Klingon or something by the time this is done. :)
This is handy, but this means the regexp engine needs to be *VERY* dynamic
at runtime.
--
When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.
-- Steve Haflich, comp.lang.c++
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