Re: Unicode: Perl5 equivalent to Perl6's @string.graphemes?

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Hm. Are you sure about \p{M}? In perldoc perluniprops this is defined as matching "Mark" (whatever it means). You need something like \p{InHiragana}. Better yet, define your own property that would match what you really need. Read "perldoc perlunicode".

Also make sure that edict is really in UTF-8. The simplest is to open it in vim editor and then check the encoding. Normally vim uses utf-8 so if japanese is displayed correctly, then it is UTF-8. If not, then it is somethings else (I know that EDICT disctributed by WWWJDIC is in EUC-JP).

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Re^2: Unicode: Perl5 equivalent to Perl6's @string.graphemes? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 12, 2010 at 22:30 UTC
Hm. Are you sure about \p{M}? Yes. /`\P{M}\p{M}`/ is a poor man's version of (only recently available) /`\X`/. The idea is to match what the reader would consider a character. These are called "graphemes". Graphemes can be formed by more than one Unicode code points. For example, this instance of grapheme "é" is composed using code points U+0065 (LATIN SMALL LETTER E) plus U+0301 (COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT). U+0065 matches /`\P{M}`/, and U+0301 matches /`\p{M}`/. He simply needs to apply the regex pattern against the decoded text (as his commented out code would do) rather than apply the regexp against the UTF-8 bytes that represent the text. Also make sure that edict is really in UTF-8.* It surely is since he got a U+FF11 (FULLWIDTH DIGIT ONE, a "1" as wide as a Japanese character) when treating the input as UTF-8.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Unicode: Perl5 equivalent to Perl6's @string.graphemes?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 12, 2010 at 22:30 UTC

Hm. Are you sure about \p{M}?

Yes. /\P{M}\p{M}*/ is a poor man's version of (only recently available) /\X/. The idea is to match what the reader would consider a character. These are called "graphemes". Graphemes can be formed by more than one Unicode code points. For example, this instance of grapheme "é" is composed using code points U+0065 (LATIN SMALL LETTER E) plus U+0301 (COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT). U+0065 matches /\P{M}/, and U+0301 matches /\p{M}/.

He simply needs to apply the regex pattern against the decoded text (as his commented out code would do) rather than apply the regexp against the UTF-8 bytes that represent the text.

Also make sure that edict is really in UTF-8.

It surely is since he got a U+FF11 (FULLWIDTH DIGIT ONE, a "1" as wide as a Japanese character) when treating the input as UTF-8.

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