Comparing inputs with source strings

[email protected] (Daniel Dehennin) Mon, 09 May 2016 16:53:15 +0200
Newsgroups perl.unicode
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Hello,

I tried to make my Perl5 code unicode compliant after reading a post on
stackoverflow[1].

As suggested in the post:

    =E2=80=9Calways run incoming stuff through NFD and outbound stuff from =
NFC.=E2=80=9D

I got a hard time finding why my Test::More was failing but displaying
exactly the same strings for =E2=80=9Cgot=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cexpected=E2=
=80=9D.

I finally check how UTF-8 sources are handled and found that they are in
NFC form, I run the following script:

#+begin_src perl
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use utf8;
use warnings;

use Test::More;
use Unicode::Normalize;

my $unistring =3D 'C=E2=80=99est une cha=C3=AEne unicode';

my @forms =3D ("NFD", "NFC", "NFKD", "NFKC");

for my $form (@forms) {
	if ($unistring eq &$form($unistring)) {
		print "UTF-8 source is in form '$form'\n";
	}
}
#+end_src

and got:

#+begin_src
UTF-8 source is in form 'NFC'
UTF-8 source is in form 'NFKC'
#+end_src

So, the Test::More::is_deeply was trying to compare an input in NFD with
the expected string in NFC.

My code can use Unicode::Collate, but for all the code I did not write I
wonder if there is a way to handle it cleanly.

Or maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Regards.

Footnotes:=20
[1]  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid=
-utf-8-by-default

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