Locale can be set by environment variable. It's not a compile time option. The 
stock regex engines handle locales on z/OS. 

On 27 Oct 2013, at 9:00 pm, Ze'ev Atlas <zatl...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> Why can't it test for locale?
> 
> because they do not have C and cannot build it.
> 
> for me, to change the open source library that was not designed to deal with 
> that stuff (i.e. EBCDIC locales), it would be a major surgery rather then a 
> relatively simple port.  PCRE has to be compiled separately for ASCII/UTF-8 
> vs. UTF-16, vs UTF-32 vs. EBCDIC
> 
> ZA
> 
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