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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
August 7, 2010 17:59
Subject:
unicode_strings feature
Message ID:
AANLkTikPwZTbZ622aZ9=z35spa9zCoxr-2EVEvNRRrAM@mail.gmail.com
Hi,

The documented purpose of unicode_strings is make these equivalent.

>perl -le"my $s = chr(0xE1); utf8::upgrade($s); print $s =~ /[[:alpha:]]/
?1:0"
1

>perl -le"use feature 'unicode_strings'; my $s = chr(0xE1); print $s =~
/[[:alpha:]]/ ?1:0"
0

What am I missing?
Eric Brine

Perl 5.12.1

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