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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
December 30, 2000 08:31
Subject:
Re: more UTF8 test suites and an UTF8 patch
Message ID:
20001230103119.C12531@chaos.wustl.edu
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 11:39:37AM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 02:27:10PM +0900, Inaba Hiroto wrote:
> > Following is description of the patch. (does not mention all fixes)
> 
> !!!!
> 
> Wow.
> 
> Uhm, you don't happen to want to look at the tr/// stuff in doop.c, do
> you? :)

He already has -- your torture.pl works.

(As does the split //, v300.400)

> > Lastly, the new pragma I would like to propose in the patch is,
> > 
> > lib/distinct.pm:
> 
> Could we call this unicode::distinct?

That would be a better name, yes, but I've still to see an example
of it being used.

> > With the patch, this pragma affects `eq' and `cmp' only.
> > shoule be affect index, rindex, regexp match, etc?
> 
> It probably should, yes.
> 
> -- 
> "The best index to a person's character is a) how he treats people who can't 
> do him any good and b) how he treats people who can't fight back."
> -- Abigail Van Buren

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