Re: Re: Gobo Regexp and Unicode support.

Colin Paul Adams <colin-vnRo6g/[email protected]> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:01:58 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.gobo.general
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>>>>> "Ted" == Ted  <kkkkg999-/[email protected]> writes:

    Ted> --- In [email protected], Colin Paul Adams <colin@...> wrote:
    >> 
    >> 
    >> I don't understand how you have done this - the regexp library
    >> only handles 8-bit characters. 19981 is not an 8-bit value.

    Ted> That's what the patch does. `item_code' of UC_STRING does
    Ted> return correct 4-byte Unicode character (INTEGER_32), doesn't
    Ted> it? `item' didn't.

But the library is using an 8-bit state automaton - it only knows
about 8-bit codes.
Are you taking the code modulo 256?

Have you tried to match ".*a.*" against a string of 256 successive
codepoints (not including ASCII")?

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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire