Re: Ethiopic text

From: Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
Date: Tue Mar 10 1998 - 12:10:23 EST


"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> writes:

> On the subject of regular-expression support for Unicode, the POSIX
> definition of regexps includes recognition of character classes. I
> believe that the regexp package in GNU gawk, available at
>
> ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gawk-3.0.3.tar.gz ,
>
> has the POSIX definition implemented. While it is still based on
> 8-bit characters, it might prove a suitable starting point for Unicode
> support.

Well, this implementation does has the code included. But the locale
dependent definition of the classes as demanded by POSIX is only
available when running on systems using the GNU libc 2. Otherwise the
information is not available.

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