[tpm] Fwd: Perl and Unicode

[Antonio Sun]

Thanks a lot  Mike & Liam for the replies.

2009/5/1 Mike Stok <mike at stok.ca>

>
> Anyone knows how to split an Unicode string into individual characters?
> E.g., from "骆驼" to '骆' & '驼'?
>
> So both unpack 'U*' and split // work. I should have thought that split //
would work on Unicode too.



> There has to be a better way than this:
>
>   DB<7> @chars = map { chr } unpack('U*', "骆驼")
>

this teaches me that to pack back 'unpack' is not 'pack' but 'chr'. :-)

BTW, "骆驼" means camel in Chinese.

cheers
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