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Unicode and Natural Language

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Text that computers deal with tends to fall into two categories: things that are meant to be consumed by humans (like prose), and things that are meant to be consumed by software (machine code and encrypted files come to mind).

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  1. 1.

    http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/

  2. 2.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals

  3. 3.

    https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes#Unicode_properties

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Lenz, M. (2017). Unicode and Natural Language. In: Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3228-6_12

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