Many regex failures

Mark Brown bmark@us.ibm.com
Thu Jul 13 07:15:00 GMT 2000


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
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Mark S. Brown                                                   bmark@us.ibm.com
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