Bug#119512: perl: latin1 171 and 187 not considered bracketing quotes in substitution

Tue Nov 9 12:56:50 UTC 2010

tag 119512 wontfix
thanks

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:39:15AM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsï¿½ker wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.6.1-5
> Severity: minor

Sorry about the lack of response to this.

> Perl does not consider « and » (characters 171 and 187 in ISO-8859-1)
> bracketing quotes in regular expressions, thus you can't do 's«foo»«bar»'.

Allowing non-ASCII paired brackets seems to me like a can of worms
best unopened. I'm sure the Unicode table has plenty of surprising
bracket pairs.

The 'Gory details of parsing quoted constructs' in perlre.pod explicitly
lists all the bracketing punctuations, so this is working as designed.

I don't see much chance for (or point in) getting this implemented,
but please push it upstream yourself if you care.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org