Level 1 Unicode support for Java regexes: overview

2011-01-21 Thread Tom Christiansen
> Thanks for looking into the Unicode support issues in Java RegEx. > Since you have been working on Unicode in the past decade, I'm sure > you understand that most of the issues you are pointing out here > belongs to the "Extended Unicode Support: Level 2" as documented in > UTS#18 Unicode Regula

RL1.1 Hex Notation

2011-01-21 Thread Tom Christiansen
Here's the first requirement that must be met to claim Level 1 compliance. Java does not yet meet this requirement, but it could easily do so: indeed, my own regex-rewriting library implements this requirement. It takes very little code at all and is *completely* backwards compatible because it u

Re: Level 1 Unicode support for Java regexes: overview

2011-01-21 Thread Alan Bateman
Tom Christiansen wrote: : [1] http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html Is the source for that available? If it were, I'm sure many questions I have I could easily answer myself. Have you cloned the forest? If so then it's in jdk/src/share/classes/java/ut

more Oracle MX troubles

2011-01-21 Thread Tom Christiansen
I've just cleared still more dynamic blacklist entry for Oracle's MX servers, including rcsinet11.oracle.com [148.87.113.123]. If someone from within Oracle could please send me mail, I'd like to test that the way here is truly cleared again. This is happening because you have a compromised ma

Re: RL1.1 Hex Notation

2011-01-21 Thread Xueming Shen
Tom, Introducing in the new perl style \x{...} as the hexadecimal notation appears to be a nice-to-have enhancement (I will file a RFE to put this request in record). But I don't think you can simply deny that the Java Unicode escape sequences for UTF16 is NOT A "mechanism"/notation for specif

Re: more Oracle MX troubles

2011-01-21 Thread Xueming Shen
Yes, all my emails, including the last one I just sent out minutes ago, are bounced back with the following error message. -Sherman - The original message was received at Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:26:53 GMT from rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117] - The following ad