Re: [MacPerl] calling xcmds/xcfns

[robinmcf@altern.org]

Peter Hartmann wrote:
>I just succeeded in using the xcfn in RealBasic. (BTW, the xcfn
>accesses the OS's Japanese morpheme analysis library).
>When I try to run this, however, I get the error
>
>Any idea anybody? Any help is appreciated.

try using MacJPerl - here's a link to it :
http://world.std.com/~habilis/macjperl

quoting Marcus Sen (from a previous discussion pertaining to Kanji support
in Macperl):

>As far as Perl and global compatibility goes; I suppose proper support
>will be left until
>Unicode is common on Unix OS's and for MacPerl this would depend on Apple
>incorporating it
>into MacOS.  For example, If you look in the RegExp section of the Perl
>FAQ you will see that
>in the case of multi-byte languages it basically says that they are just
>too difficult to
>handle nicely at the moment.  One advantage of open source software like
>Perl, though, is >that, while we're waiting for the slow process of
>international standardization (slow for
>both technical and political reasons), it is possible to customize
>versions for particular
>requirements.  The benefit of supporting 'cool' characters probably
>doesn't justify
>the extra effort of maintaining a separate version:-( (Although, I seem
>to remember someone once saying they were going to compile their own
>version to handle line breaks the way they preferred.)  In the case of
>Japanese,
>however, the benefit of being able to use powerful Perl text processing on
>Japanese text probably does justify the effort of maintaining the separate
>JPerl (and MacJPerl) versions.

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