Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

>   my $integer = unpack( "%32C*", "$author$title" ) % 65535;

If you want these to be repeatable, you should preceded that by:

(a) unicode normalisation
(b) whitespace normalisation
(c) case folding

Probably in that order.

cheers
stuart
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