Re: Re: Gobo Regexp and Unicode support.

Colin Paul Adams <colin-vnRo6g/[email protected]> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:21:39 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.gobo.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Franck" == Franck Arnaud <[email protected]> writes:

    >> Do you mean you are translating both the regular expression and
    >> the data to the UTF-8 byte representations?
    >> 
    >> This is a trick Franck Arnaud suggested, but it doesn't always
    >> work. For instance, . in the regular expression will now match
    >> one byte, not one character.

    Franck> not if you've translated "." properly to UTF-8 (the regexp
    Franck> that matches UTF8 byte sequences, from a cursory look your
    Franck> dot should be translated to the regexp at the bottom of
    Franck> this page:
    Franck> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8).

    Franck> arguably it's getting so hairy it's probably better to do
    Franck> it properly.

    >> There are many more problems. For instance, case insensitive
    >> matching.

    Franck> should be solvable with more hairyness.

I'm as hairy as the next man, but because I wear a shirt, there is a
limit to the amount of hairiness that can persist.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire

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