Many thanks for the replies. Reading the documentation, it looks like it's a
bit more complicated than I had hoped.
On the other hand, I realized that for my purpose (removing unwanted hyphens
from an OCR'ed document), I don't actually need to match the greek letters,
because they occur in two unique formats throughout the whole document (which
should match \w- and -\w- ).
Thomas
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Van: Brian Fraser [frase...@gmail.com]
Verzonden: donderdag 29 september 2011 16:59
Aan: John Delacour
CC: beginners@perl.org
Onderwerp: Re: Matching Greek letters in UTF-8 file
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:58 AM, John Delacour <johndelac...@gmail.com>wrote:
> use encoding 'utf-8';
>
>
Nitpick: Please don't use this, as encoding is broken. use utf8; and use
open qw< :std :encoding(UTF-8) >; should make do for a replacement.
To the original poster, please note that there's a bit of a difference in
case-insensitive matching (i.e. using /i) -- newer versions of Perl do full
casefolding (so \N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND PROSGEGRAMMENI}
matches \N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI}\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA}),
whereas older versions don't. So if you need to do that, I'd recommend
giving the docs a thorough read. Also this:
http://98.245.80.27/tcpc/OSCON2011/upr.html
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