On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:05:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Should perl's regexes and other character comparison bits have an option
> > to consider different characters for the same thing as identical beasts?
> > I'm thinking in particular of the Katakana/Hiragana bits of japanese,
> > but other languages may have the same concepts.
>
> I think canonicalization gets you that if that's what you want. I
> definitely think that Perl should be able to do all of NFD, NFC, NFKD, and
> NFKC canonicalization.
Agreed.
> NFC will collapse most different characters for the same thing to a single
> character and get rid of most of the compatibility characters for you.
> NFKC will go further and do stuff like getting rid of superscripts and the
> like.
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