Denis S. Otkidach wrote: > On all platfroms \w matches all unicode letters when used with flag > re.UNICODE, but this doesn't work on SuSE 9.2: > > Python 2.3.4 (#1, Dec 17 2004, 19:56:48) > [GCC 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import re > >>> re.compile(ur'\w+', re.U).match(u'\xe4') > >>> > > BTW, is correctly recognize this character as lowercase letter: > >>> import unicodedata > >>> unicodedata.category(u'\xe4') > 'Ll' > > I've looked through all SuSE patches applied, but found nothing > related. What is the reason for broken behavior? Incorrect > configure options?
To summarize the discussion: either it's a bug in glibc or there is an option to specify modern POSIX locale. POSIX locale consist of characters from the portable character set, unicode is certainly portable. Serge. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
