The fact of the matter is, if the pattern switched to the Unicode character scheme then the pattern couldn't possibly match a single character in a UTF-8 string.

Why not?

Because a Unicode character and a UTF-8 character are different entities. If the regex is looking for a Unicode character, the regex will never find one in a string that contains only UTF-8 characters.

By the way, if you find places where the docs need improvement, don't whine about it, but submit patches.

Wouldn't it be best to discuss proposed changes before submitting anything? In any case, I spent 7 yours one day trying to do just that--without success, and I will never, ever try to interface with that archaic system ever again.

I don't think so. I also don't see how anything of the docs is factually incorrect.

Well, you are smarter than me, so I guess that's the end of that.

In reply to Re^2: perl unicode docs by 7stud
in thread perl unicode docs by 7stud

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