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Re: Many regex failures

To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: Many regex failures
From: Mark Brown <bmark at us dot ibm dot com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:15:08 -0500
CC: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Organization: IBM Corporation
References: <20000712193501.A7288@lucon.org> <m3n1jm8qtb.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com>
Reply-To: bmark at us dot ibm dot com



Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Regex must be rewritten completely and this is one of the things I
> plan to do once things settle down with the 2.2 release.  There is
> absolutely no hope to use a single piece from the existing
> implementation since the most inner code is not prepared for multibyte
> characters.

I will look to see if my employer can donate its version, which is designed
for multibyte and unicode. This may take a little while -- lawyers and such.

Mark
-- 
Mark S. Brown                                                   bmark@us.ibm.com
IBM RS/6000 AIX System Architecture                    512.838.3926  T/L678.3926
IBM Corporation, Austin, Texas

References:
- Many regex failures
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: Many regex failures
  - From: Ulrich Drepper

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