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List:       perl5-porters
Subject:    Re: What should \X match?
From:       jesse <jesse () fsck ! com>
Date:       2009-11-29 21:54:23
Message-ID: 20091129215423.GI21237 () bestpractical ! com
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:05:56PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> I think the answer is simply that the definition of \X very probably
> just was never properly updated as the definitions and terminology of
> Unicode changed over time.
> 
> What we need to do is to not to get too hung up on the exact words used
> in the current documentation and instead try to follow the *intention*
> of \X which I believe was simply "single base character followed by zero
> or more diacritics".  If the current Unicode doesn't include anything
> quite that simple, but it does contain something similar, then let's
> take that. And then update the implementation/documentation to agree
> with the current state of things. And be "we" I mean "you".

+1

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