Mark Aitchison writes: > I am writing perl programs that I'd like to know will work under both > Linux and Cygwin, and have to deal with Unicode now.
Why not do it properly, i.e. actually work in unicode? > I had used Text::Unidecode happily in Linux but find no cygwin > version. Possibly I am not looking in the right places for it, but > possibly there are different Unicode-related modules that are > well-supported under both cygwin and linux that I should be using > instead, and I guess Unicode might be one of those things where it > depends on the underlying o/s so it probably pays to go with whatever > is the standard set of modules. Text::Unidecode _strips_ unicode characters down to ASCII so that programs that are non-Unicode aware will not balk. This may have been useful in the past, but I no longer see the point when the standard environment almost everywhere is either UTF-8 or UTF-16 these days. […] See "perldoc unicode" for starters. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Q+, Q and microQ: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
