On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:36:23PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > > > 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. No, we have it already for many years (libc/regexec). BSD grep problem is different one, they use upper half of 256 char table on their own. -- http://ache.pp.ru/Received on Mon Jun 16 2008 - 22:22:47 UTC
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