On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
> -> > Somebody posted a Glib-ized regex to the list a few weeks ago, and
> -> > it got some feedback and went through a couple of iterations. Is there
> -> > any reason not to add it to Glib? I think it would be very useful to
> -> > have.
> ->
> -> No Unicode support.
>
> Mark Leisher has developed a regex library hat uses UTF-16
> internally. It can be found at
>
> http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/
>
> I think a Glib regex would be very cool to have, for the text
> widget and for general use.
>
> Is anyone interested in porting this into the Glib style? And,
> would people be willing to consider it for Glib 2.0? (I don't have time
> to work on this right now, just trying to get the project going)
>
> Outstanding issues:
>
> * Does "UTF-16 internally" mean that it will only work on a UTF-16
> encoded buffer?
>
> * Will the GTK+ team insist on a regex lib that uses UTF-8 internally?
>
> * Are there any other Unicode-supporting regex libs we can look at?
I think new perl regex stuff could be considered since recent perl supports
Unicode (in regexes too), though I afraid it's tightly integrated with the
language. But probably Mark's lib is better.
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
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