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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq6.pod b/pod/perlfaq6.pod index be7e8ecc73..58e9708915 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq6.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq6.pod @@ -641,11 +641,20 @@ programming language, you insensitive scoundrel! =head2 How can I match strings with multibyte characters? -This is hard, and there's no good way. Perl does not directly support -wide characters. It pretends that a byte and a character are -synonymous. The following set of approaches was offered by Jeffrey -Friedl, whose article in issue #5 of The Perl Journal talks about this -very matter. +Starting from Perl 5.6 Perl has had some level of multibyte character +support. Perl 5.8 or later is recommended. Supported multibyte +character repetoires include Unicode, and legacy encodings +through the Encode module. See L<perluniintro>, L<perlunicode>, +and L<Encode>. + +If you are stuck with older Perls, you can do Unicode with the +C<Unicode::String> module, and character conversions using the +C<Unicode::Map8> and C<Unicode::Map> modules. If you are using +Japanese encodings, you might try using the jperl 5.005_03. + +Finally, the following set of approaches was offered by Jeffrey +Friedl, whose article in issue #5 of The Perl Journal talks about +this very matter. Let's suppose you have some weird Martian encoding where pairs of ASCII uppercase letters encode single Martian letters (i.e. the two |