> You cannot. First, \w in re.LOCALE works only when the text is encoded > with the locale encoding (cp1252 in your case). Second, re.LOCALE > supports only 8-bit charsets. So even if you set the utf-8 locale, it > would not help. > > Regular expressions with re.LOCALE are slow. It may be more efficient to > decode text and use Unicode regular expression.
Thank you, I guess I'm convinced to always decode everything (re pattern and text) to utf8 internally and then do the re search but then I would need to figure out the correct position, hmm - some ongoing investigation needed, I guess. Thx Eren -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
