31/03/2013 21:35, Georg Baum:
I believe this happens because the "ž" is encoded as two bytes when
using UTF-8. And I guess the regexp matching software in use works on
"bytes", not "characters". So, you are forced to use two periods to
match the two bytes in "ž". And more, if you want to match Chinese
characters.
I am not sure if it has anything to do with utf8. The expanded string looks
like it is expanded for LaTeX. This looks quite wrong to me in context of
searching. Why is this done?
This is how advanced search works. The argument is that otherwise
implementing regex:s would have been difficult. It would be nice to have
a template-based regex engine that can be applied to a LyX Paragraph.
Concerning the difficult of using a joker for accented characters, I
think indeed that utf8 is to blame.
JMarc
