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Chapter 12

Softwares Written in Other than C/C++

Though C and C++ was, is, and will be the main language for software development for UNIX like

platforms, other languages, especially scripting languages, are often used.

Generally, languages other than C/C++ have less support for I18N then C/C++. However, nowa 

days other languages than C/C++ are coming to support Locale and Unicode.

12.1 Fortran

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12.2 Pascal

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12.3 Perl

Perl is one of the most important languages. Indeed, Debian system defines Perl as essential.

Perl 5.6 can handle UTF 8 characters. Declaration of

use utf8;

will enable it. For example,

length()

will return the number of characters, not the number of bytes.

However, it does not work well for me. . . why?

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