I just can't seem to get my head around locales... although looking through numerous posts...

So I have a multi lingual application, I want to match names based on the locale of the language (well at least its only Western European

...

So I would expect this to work 

use POSIX 'locale_h';
my $loc = 'de_DE.UTF-8';  # German locale, for example. Run 'locale -a
+'
#+ to get the exact locale name
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, $loc)
 my $suspect = "vähicule";
 if($suspect =~ /^\w+$/) {
          print STDERR "MATCHES\n";
 }

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I would expect the regex to match.. it doesn't... I am missing something....

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IS there a better way of doing such things ? all I need to do is check to see if a input matches as per the lang set....

In reply to Locale Woes... by ropey

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