On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 07:53:46PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > The only clean way I see out of the locale mess is to replace them
> > > with a clean *Perl-specific* API: what I mean by this is that Perl
> > > distribution itself would contain the necessary locale definitions
> > > (collation, numeric and date formatting, character classes (from
> > > Unicode), et cetera), and the perl core would then use those
> > > definitions.
> >
> > All we need is mapping byte => unicode. All the rest can be deduced
> > by some C tests, right?
>
> The whole Perl 5 is "deduced by some C tests"... :-) Please be more
> specific in your proposal(?).
The stuff to-do-by-hand is the tables I mentioned. After you know
them, you can convert any locale-specific rules to Unicode.
Say, to collate 'foo1bar' where f o b a r are locale-representable
Unicode chars, and 1 is not: convert foo to locale, collate, same with
bar. Keep '1' AS IS, sorting above any locale-accessible stuff.
Is it more clear now?
Ilya
