Re: Gobo Regexp and Unicode support.

Thank you, Eric.
Looking forward to full Unicode Regexp.

Ted

--- In [email protected], Eric Bezault <ericb@...> wrote:
>
> Ted wrote:
> > I read somewhere Gobo Regexp doesn't support Unicode yet.
> > After some investigation. I found some minor changes would make it
> > support Unicode (See following patch).
> > 
> > Can someone confirm? And merge it into the library if possible.
> 
> I just committed your modifications in SVN.
> 
> However, in addition to Colin's remark about case-insensitivity, I also
> noticed that character classes (e.g. "[a-z]") will not work if they
> contain characters with code greater then 255.
> 
> For your information, this regexp library in Gobo was born out of
> a translation to Eiffel of the code of the PCRE C library. The version
> of the C library was 3.9 if I remember correctly, and it was the
> very early stage of its support for unicode. The version number today
> is 7.7 and they claim to support unicode now, supposedly with a regexp
> pattern syntax and behavior compatible with Perl's regexp. It might
> be worth looking at the PCRE C library:
> 
>    http://www.pcre.org/
> 
> in order to implement unicode support in a way that does not depart
> too much from the original PCRE library and at the same time preventing
> us from having to reinvent the wheel.
> 
> I suggest that we move this discussion to the gobo-eiffel-develop
> mailing list.
> 
> -- 
> Eric Bezault
> mailto:ericb@...
> http://www.gobosoft.com
>



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