On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:09 AM, Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:01:16 +0200 > Mattias Andrée <maand...@kth.se> wrote: > > Hey Mattias, > >> $ echo äö | ./grep [å] >> äö >> >> This is not want one expects from >> a program that supports UTF-8. > > as a general note, we may think about adding a setlocale() when we > access the regex-engine. What do you guys think? > > Cheers > > Laslo > > -- > Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de> >
Given the two options of using setlocale() or writing our own regex engine, I think using setlocale() is the less sucky solution. If we want to revisit it in the future we can but it'll give us working tools now.