Doug Barton <dougb_at_FreeBSD.org> writes: > Andrey Chernov <ache_at_nagual.pp.ru> writes: > > Please note that BSD grep is not localized (and can't be per design) > > and works only with standard C locale. It may not affect ports > > system processing but shurely affects real texts handling. > That is very troubling. In this day and age localization is a > requirement. I cannot imagine being supportive of adding something to > the base that does not have this capability. We don't have a locale-aware regex implementation. Henry Spencer wrote one for Tcl 8, and it seems to be under an MIT-equivalent license, but I'm not sure how hard it would be to extirpate. It might be easier to lift it from PostgreSQL, which also uses it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Mon Jun 16 2008 - 10:51:51 UTC
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