Unicode also provides collation charts, but I don't know if they supported in perl.

As far as I know not in core, but Unicode::Collate should make them accessible.

Where comes the conflict with locales from?

Probably a lack of care. Supporting Unicode correctly is not easy, and supporting locales correctly isn't easy either (and hard to test, because you usually can only test those locales provided by the system). Supporting both together probably requires greate lengths that no core developer is willing to walk.

So far I found Unicode to be sufficient for my text processing needs, and I guess that most core developers feel the same.

If somebody stepped up and provided patches that made both of them work together, I'm sure they would be accepted.

Perl 6 - second systems done right

In reply to Re: Locale and Unicode, enemies in perl? by moritz
in thread Locale and Unicode, enemies in perl? by andal

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