Re: [racket] pregexp to detect Japanese characters

2014-09-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
NEVER MIND. I figured it out: ; detects japanese characters ; contains-japanese-characters? str -> bool (define (contains-japanese-characters? s) (or (regexp-match #rx"[\u3041-\u3096]" s) ; Hiragana (regexp-match #rx"[\u30A0-\u30FF]" s) ; Katakana (Full Width) (regexp-match #rx"[\u34

[racket] pregexp to detect Japanese characters

2014-09-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
I'm writing a function to detect Japanese characters in a string. I found this page: [1]http://www.localizingjapan.com/blog/2012/01/20/regular-expre ssions-for-japanese-text/ So, for example, the example Perl regexp [\x{3041}-\x{3096}] would detect Hiragana characters (as would \p{Hiragana}).