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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Perl Unidecode modules - which to use (if not Text::Unidecode)?
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2021 08:43:19 +0200
In-Reply-To: <d3342ff4-f717-f882-5c41-b27ab272dc03@cyberXpress.co.nz> (Mark
 Aitchison's message of "Fri, 2 Apr 2021 09:35:31 +1300")
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Mark Aitchison writes:
> I am writing perl programs that I'd like to know will work under both
> Linux and Cygwin, and have to deal with Unicode now.

Why not do it properly, i.e. actually work in unicode?

> I had used Text::Unidecode happily in Linux but find no cygwin
> version. Possibly I am not looking in the right places for it, but
> possibly there are different Unicode-related modules that are
> well-supported under both cygwin and linux that I should be using
> instead, and I guess Unicode might be one of those things where it
> depends on the underlying o/s so it probably pays to go with whatever
> is the standard set of modules.

Text::Unidecode _strips_ unicode characters down to ASCII so that
programs that are non-Unicode aware will not balk.  This may have been
useful in the past, but I no longer see the point when the standard
environment almost everywhere is either UTF-8 or UTF-16 these days.

[…]

See "perldoc unicode" for starters.

Regards,
Achim.
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