Re: OT: Perl & UTF-8

[Holger Rauch <Holger.Rauch@heitec.de>]

Hi!

Thanks for your reply!

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, dman wrote:

> [...]
> So the regexps you're using are in a 8859-n source file, right? 

Yep.

> Can perl handle UTF-8 source files? 

Don't know. That's why I mailed this question ;-)

> Are you trying to use things like the
> posix character class [:alpha:]?  

No.

> I don't think those will handle all
> alphabetic characters in all unicode supported languages (probably
> just ascii/english alphabet).

What about \w?

Thanks again for your hint.

Greetings,

	Holger