note Jim <blockquote><i>The discussion isn't about Unicode…</i></blockquote> <p>Yes it <i>is</i> about Unicode. "Unicode" is in the subject. Please go start your own discussion of water level measurements somewhere else.</p> <blockquote><i>reverse doesn't perform a Unicode operation.</i></blockquote> <p>Yes it <i>does</i>. Every time it reverses a Unicode string, it performs a Unicode operation.</p> <p>What kind of operation is <i>this</i> Perl code performing?</p> <code> use utf8; $utf8_text =~ s/\p{General_Category=Currency_Symbol}+/€/g; </code> <p><i>Not</i> a Unicode operation?</p> 661510 885296