Aaron Sherman wrote in perl.perl6.language : > > A silly question: is there a canonical character set from which we > extract these ranges? Are we hard-coding Unicode here, or is there some > way for the user to specify the character set for ranges?
Perl 5 forces [a-z] (or [i-j] for that matter) to be a range of lowercase alphabetic characters, even on EBCDIC platforms (where it's not).
