Re: Perl6 and accents

2010-05-18 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Tom Christiansen wrote: Certainly it's perfectly well known amongst people who deal with letters--including with the Unicode standard. Accent does have a colloquial meaning that maps correctly, but sadly that colloquial definition does not correspond to the technical definition, so in being

Re: Perl6 and accents

2010-05-17 Thread Moritz Lenz
Tom Christiansen wrote: Exegesis 5 @ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E05.html reads: The Exegesis are historical documents, and should be treated as such. (If any volunteer is around, submitting a patch that puts HISTORICAL DOCUMENT ONLY in big red letter on these pages would be greatly

Re: Perl6 and accents

2010-05-17 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Tom Christiansen tchr...@perl.com wrote: Exegesis 5 @ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E05.html reads: # Perl 6 / alpha - [A-Za-z] + / # All alphabetics except A-Z or a-z # (i.e. the accented alphabetics)