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* karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> [2010-07-12 19:35]: > \x without the braces is only for 'narrow' or 'short' > characters. I'm not sure which would be the better term. 'wide' > and 'long' are used variously in other pods. Perl itself says “wide characters”, as does the rest of the world when speaking about encodings like UTF-8, which are called “variable width” to boot. The opposite of “wide” is “narrow”. (If I read “long character” somewhere, my first instinct would actually be to think of grapheme clusters.) Warm regards and pretty sheds, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next