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Re^4: Unicode: Perl5 equivalent to Perl6's @string.graphemes?

by ikegami (Patriarch)
on Nov 13, 2010 at 05:44 UTC ( [id://871207]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Unicode: Perl5 equivalent to Perl6's @string.graphemes?
in thread Unicode: Perl5 equivalent to Perl6's @string.graphemes?

(See http://ameblo.jp/gucciman-ikkob/entry-10317490092.html for an explanation of the peculiar last line of the file named DriedMangos.txt.)

Presumably, it says that plain double-quotes were used instead of a combining mark. As such, q{ コ" } is really two graphemes even though it approximates one (q{ ゴ }).

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Re^5: Unicode: Perl5 equivalent to Perl6's @string.graphemes?
by Jim (Curate) on Nov 13, 2010 at 06:02 UTC
    Presumably, it says that plain double-quotes were used instead of a combining mark.

    I don't read Japanese, but I presume it says something along the lines of, "Ha! Look at what some goofy print pressman in the Philippines did!"

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