On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrey Chernov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Please note that BSD grep is not localized (and can't be per design)
and works only with standard C locale. It may not affect ports
system processing but shurely affects real texts handling.
That is very troubling. In this day and age localization is a
requirement. I cannot imagine being supportive of adding something to
the base that does not have this capability.
We don't have a locale-aware regex implementation. Henry Spencer wrote
one for Tcl 8, and it seems to be under an MIT-equivalent license, but
I'm not sure how hard it would be to extirpate. It might be easier to
lift it from PostgreSQL, which also uses it.
Other BSD-license-friendly regex libraries:
1. PCRE (http://www.pcre.org/) (has a POSIX compliant interface too)
2. Oniguruma (http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/) (from Ruby)
3. Lrexlib (http://lrexlib.luaforge.net/) (no apparent POSIX interface)
Sean
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