Daniel Yacob writes:
: Greetings All,
:
: As I have just joined this group over the weekend I am not familiar with
: how the submission process works. I would like to offer however extensions I
: have made to the perl5.005_55/lib/unicode/ files for the Ethiopic writing
: system which is now a part of the Unicode 3.0 standard:
:
: ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/perl-unicode/perl-unicode.tar.gz
:
: The README.Ethiopic file gives the details.
Integrating that would be probably be the job of the current pumpkin
holder, Sarathy.
: The utf8 support feels like a new lease on life. I love it! Is there any
: intention to extend it beyond regex sequences? I would like also to use
: non-ASCII terms for string, array, and subroutine names.
It should already work for that, as long as you've set up the properties
to reflect which characters should be considered letters.
: I still struggle to work with regexes on syllabic writing systems in a
: "natural" way though "\p" has opened new doors. I have composed a
: description of the problem I am facing with Perl in a brief paper prepared
: for this group. The initial draft is:
:
: "Developing Amharic Regular Expressions in Perl"
:
: ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/perl-unicode/regex992.ps.gz
This does not appear to be a valid URL.
Larry
