Re: regular expressions

From: Tony Harminc (tzha0@juts.ccc.amdahl.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 1997 - 12:16:49 EST


> 2. Has anyone given any serious thought to extensions of said Unixoid regular
> expression syntax to handle non-English alphabets used as "ranges" for pattern
> matching?

Presumably any such extensions would need to include concepts of sort
order if they are going to handle ranges. In other words the whole
Unicode character properties database is not a sufficient resource;
some sort standard (preferably the nascent ISO 14651) tables are also
needed. Doesn't make for a small grep (or whatever).

Tony Harminc
tzha0@juts.ccc.amdahl.com



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