On 30.07.2011 5:21, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/29/2011 4:24 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/index.html
This is a good starting point for seeing where we are with Unicode
support and
where we need to go.
One problem: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6403
Let me expand a bit my reply on bugzilla.
There are other things I'd like to note, besides conforming to unicode
regex standard, that is (going to be) fully supported in upcoming
next-gen std.regex.
Things I'd love to see in an upgrade of std.uni:
- normalization (at least NFC)
- unicode version 5.0 ---> 6.0
- grapheme support, via a special range on top of string or at
least plain "stride" function that tells the length of a cluster a-la
the one that does UTF-8 decoding
I had to (re)implement a lot of stuff, with the end result that the
unicode support in regex is self-contained right now.
Of course, I'd be willing to make arrangements to gradually shift some
of this stuff back where it belongs, once I'm finished with regexes.
--
Dmitry Olshansky
