On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:22:25AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > 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. Oops, sorry I am thinking about BSD _sort_ when writing last statement. BSD grep is even not bothering to call setlocale(). I can't say is it can be simple healed by adding that call, some test suite run is needed. -- http://ache.pp.ru/Received on Mon Jun 16 2008 - 22:28:29 UTC
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