Perl 5.8 is out!
Perl 5.6 had some initial UTF-8 support, but that still had numerous
restrictions that severely limited its use (e.g., regex didn't work).
Perl 5.8 now comes with significantly revised, extended and improved
UTF-8 support and finally makes Perl excellently suited as a programming/
scripting language for a native UTF-8 environment.
"Unicode support has been much enhanced since 5.6, at all levels:
- now supports Unicode 3.2.0 (5.6.1 supports 3.0.1)
- at the language (and internals) level Unicode support is
now more ubiquitous and robust
- regular expressions now work with Unicode
- support for non-Latin encodings (such as the various
Chinese/Japanese/Korean encodings) through the Encode module"
http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2002/07/18/580ann/
man perlunicode
Another major milestone reached ... I guess the emacs-unicode is now the
only one left ...
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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