perl-unicode

Re: possible regexp feature for 5.6: "ignore diacritics"

1999-10-18 02:22:59

Russ Allbery writes:
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> writes:

The notation is [=c=], where c is a character (the context equivalence
classes have been previously mentioned has been the POSIX regexp
extensions in general, such as the recently implemented [:class:]
extension).

Remind me; under POSIX, isn't [=ss=] supposed to work and match ß?

But this is Ilya's \N{}, right? :-)

Honestly, I don't remember.  Darn it, I must get my hands to a copy of 1003.2...

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