Re: [MacPerl] locale on Mac

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 07.18 -0400 1998.09.28, Bart Lateur wrote:
>I have tried to convert a set of all upercase text to lowercase, using
>something like:
>
>	print lc $_;
>
>However, this failed to do it's job on special characters like "…" and
>"†", which remained in uppercase. (In case it got mangled: these are
>uppercase letters with "umlaut" AKA "dieresis").
>
>For what I'"v read, this might be remedied by proper "locale" settings.
>Can I fix it?

  use locale;  # should work now

>Why is locale setting not set to standard Mac character set, by default?

It is set to ASCII, and for compatibility's sake, I think that is how it
should be.  Since it is so easy to "fix" with the singl e use locale
statement, it seems to me not a problem.

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