Re:Unicode, Perl 6, and You
by kbenson on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:47PM
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> Don’t worry though, standard Perl 6 does not demand that you be able to type Unicode. If you can’t, there are so-called “Texas” variants:
I've always loved the "everything's bigger in Texas" joke implicit inthe "texas" variant on some operators.
> If you’re interested in working within a particular normalization, there’s the self-explanatory types of NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD.
That would probably be better with a "Well, it's self explanatory at the point you know you want to work in a particular normalization", since I only vaguely know what those are, and I've beenhearing about some of them for years. ;)
I've always loved the "everything's bigger in Texas" joke implicit inthe "texas" variant on some operators.
> If you’re interested in working within a particular normalization, there’s the self-explanatory types of NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD.
That would probably be better with a "Well, it's self explanatory at the point you know you want to work in a particular normalization", since I only vaguely know what those are, and I've beenhearing about some of them for years. ;)
Great post though!