"but he meant some unicode string"

Yes. It definitely wouldn't work on an upper-ascii-type encoding such as Thai originally began with, without some form of encoding/decoding going on. I guess I put "UTF8" because that is what gets used most with Thai, and what I knew would work having developed strictly with that. I presume any Unicode type should work equally well, though I don't claim to be an expert on Unicode.

In your code example: 

print "\$_ has got Thai" if m{
        \p{InThai}
        |\p{InThaiCons}
        |\p{InThaiHCons}
        |\p{InThaiMCons}
        |\p{InThaiLCons}
        |\p{InThaiVowel}
        |\p{InThaiPreVowel}
        |\p{InThaiPostVowel}
        |\p{InThaiCompVowel}
        |\p{InThaiDigit}
        |\p{InThaiTone}
        |\p{InThaiPunct}
    }x;

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...only the first item in the OR'ed list should ever see action. All of the subsequent categories are already "InThai", and the "InThai" token already comes standard with Perl, AFAIK (see pg. 172 of "Programming Perl, Third Edition"), so that code would do little to test additional functionality. If the first line (\p{InThai}) failed, none of the others should succeed either.

NOTE: I've updated my list to reflect your proposed name, but I've adapted it slightly to one that seems a better fit to me.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^6: Namespace/advice for new CPAN modules for Thai & Lao ( Regexp::CharProps - User Defined Character Properties ) by Polyglot
in thread Namespace/advice for new CPAN modules for Thai & Lao by Polyglot

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