| | 1 | = Unicode support in Perl on Mac = |
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| | 3 | The most recent version of Mac OS X (10.6.4) still includes Perl 5.10.0, which implements Unicode 5.0. Is it likely that Perl will be updated in a minor OS release, or will we have to wait for Mac OS X 10.7 for Perl 5.12.x which implements Unicode 5.2 ? |
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| | 5 | [http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/perl/ Perl source code] at Apple. |
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| | 7 | [http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/perl.1.html man page]: |
| | 8 | * Mac OS X 10.6.4: Perl 5.10.0 (which implements Unicode 5.0) |
| | 9 | * Mac OS X 10.5: Perl 5.8.8 (which implements Unicode 4.1) |
| | 10 | * Mac OS X 10.4: Perl 5.8.6 |
| | 11 | * Mac OS X 10.3: Perl 5.8.1 |
| | 12 | * Mac OS X 10.2: Perl 5.6.0 |
| | 13 | (Does that apply to all sub-versions or only to the latest one, e.g. 10.3.0 - 10.3.9 or only 10.3.9 ?) |
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| | 15 | * Unicode 4.1: implemented in Perl 5.8.8, included in Mac OS X 10.5.8 |
| | 16 | * Unicode 5.0: implemented in Perl 5.10.0, included in Mac OS X 10.6.3, 10.6.4 |
| | 17 | * Unicode 5.1: implemented in Perl 5.8.9/5.10.1 (see [http://perldoc.perl.org/Unicode/Normalize.html]) |
| | 18 | * Unicode 5.2: implemented in Perl 5.12.0 (see [http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.0/pod/perl5120delta.pod]) |
