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Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > 2009/12/7 karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>: >> I have been trying to solve the discrepancies involving the semantics being >> different when a scalar is stored in utf8 or not. >> >> To review, there are 3 major and 1 very minor known areas where this occurs. >> Blead already contains a fix for one of the major areas: case changing via >> uc() and its cousins. >> >> I am about to submit a patch that solves it for another of the major areas: >> regex matching (non-folded). And I'm close to having a patch for the minor >> area. >> >> If those patches are accepted, it will leave just one area left, and that is >> qr/.../i. I think it would be a very good thing if the whole problem could >> be solved for 5.12. > > I concur; that would improve release consistency. > >> I want to throw out for comment the possibility that this could be solved >> trivially by always using utf8 for case insensitive matching. > > Unless "use legacy" is activated ? You're right. I hadn't thought of that. >[snip]Thread Previous