Preference:Separator character question

David Hampton hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net
Sat Apr 15 12:02:15 EDT 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 23:23 +0800, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 10:57 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Quoting Bengt Thuree <bengt at thuree.com>:
> > 
> 
> > > Any single non-alphanumeric unicode character.
> > >
> > > To me, alphanumeric means a-z, A-Z, 0-9 plus .,;: etc...
> > 
> > Nope, alphanumeric is [a-zA-z0-9].  Alpha == letter.  Numeric == number.
> > Punctuation characters are generally not included in "alphanumeric."
> 
> And what does
> 
> "Any single non-alphanumeric unicode character" mean?

It means that instead of being restricted to one of the five characters
":-.\/" you can now use any punctuation character from any language.

David




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