in reply to Hangman Assistant

An easy internationalization step that won't trouble you Americans a lot ;). Just change

/usr/share/dict/american-english

to

/usr/share/dict/words

This will make your program use the default user dictionary instead of hardcoding the American-English. At least under Debian.

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Re^2: Hangman Assistant
by Lawliet (Curate) on Jul 12, 2009 at 19:53 UTC

    Ah, good call.

    Now what to do about the next if =~ /[^a-z]/;...

    I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. --Joseph Newcomer

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      A good line for a perl program aimed at running under various languages under modern Linux systems would be this:

      use encoding ':locale';

      That way, all calculations about string length (among others) are base on characters and not on bytes. For example, many Spanish characters, under a UTF-8 system such as mine (Ubuntu 9.04), are coded in a 2-byte scheme--but this should be transparent to the programmer. So that length('aņo') yields 4 before adding use encoding ':locale'; and length('aņo') yields 3 after adding use encoding ':locale';.
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