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Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * 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, What I ended up doing was calling it "restricted-range". And, as I've said before, I think things like this aren't (necessarily) bike-shedding issues.Thread Previous | Thread Next