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Subject Author Date
Re: GILD THE LILY? Paul Miller <japh[at]voltar-confed[dot]org> 07-04-2009
2009/4/7 PeterPan <<zenothing[at]hotmail.com>>:
> I dump my chinese strings using sprintf("%O"), got things such as
> "547566555", totally unreadable.
> I see, direct dumping non-latin char maybe bother some other ones, so I
> shouldn't think only about the requirement of myself.

I believe \w would match your language if your locale was set up
right.  It seems reasonable to me that (if nothing else), the pike
authors could copy what perl does.  I'm under the impression LPC got
hashes from perl4 ...  So there's some history there.

ref:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html
http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.9/lib/locale.pm


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