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: (And, with the mailing list handlin, I can't even use my own client :(
:
: 1/ Haven't found the previous bug-report about sort and qw behaviour with
: 8bits strings.
:
: 2/ Would it be possible for lc/uc/lcfirst/ucfirst to be 8-bits clean,
: particularly, I'd really like to see
: lc("\351l\350ve") to give "\311l\310ve".
:
: 3/ split (and regexp more generally) could also use some cleaning :
:
: @a = split(/(\W)/,"\351l\350ves");
:
: @a --> ( , \351, l, \350, ves)
:
: kinda hard to use with an accentuated language like french (I know tchrist
: will agree :)

Those should all work if you've called POSIX::setlocale().

Larry

>>>>> "Larry" == Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com> writes:

Larry> Those should all work if you've called POSIX::setlocale().

Even with Asian languages?? The obvious answer would be "if the OS
supports it...", but most don't (not properly anyway, and no, I am not
trying to start an i18n flame war).

For a number of years, I made heavy use of the Japanese language
version of perl4 which was freely available.

Larry, did you ever consider integrating this support?? While the
world waits for all the vendors to offer true, functional i18n, those
of us supporting multilingual environments in the real world have had
to solve real problems with imperfect solutions like jperl.

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