On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > 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. Other BSD-license-friendly regex libraries: 1. PCRE (http://www.pcre.org/) (has a POSIX compliant interface too) 2. Oniguruma (http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/) (from Ruby) 3. Lrexlib (http://lrexlib.luaforge.net/) (no apparent POSIX interface) Sean -- scf_at_FreeBSD.orgReceived on Wed Jun 18 2008 - 19:46:48 UTC
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