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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN