Re: RFC 165 (v1) Allow Varibles in tr///

[email protected] (Chaim Frenkel) 03 Sep 2000 17:48:13 -0400
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.regex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "MD" == Mark-Jason Dominus <[email protected]> writes:

MD> The way tr/// works is that a 256-byte table is constructed at compile
MD> time that say for each input character what output character is
MD> produced.

Cancel that 256. We have to handle unicode, and I don't know anything
about it, but I do know that 256 chars are a bit limited to accomplish
that task.

And extentions to handle classes will probably be needed?

<chaim>

Hmm, has anyone started a -unicode list?

<c>
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