On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > I have a different question about IronPython and Jython now. Do their > regular expression libraries support Unicode better than CPython's? > E.g. does "." match a surrogate pair? Tom C suggests that Java's regex > libraries get this and many other details right despite Java's use of > UTF-16 to represent strings. So hopefully Jython's re library is built > on top of Java's? Even bigger oops - I answered the thread questions and not this specific one. Currently Jython's re is a Jython specific implementation and so is not likely to benefit from the improvements in Java's re implementation. I think in terms of PEP 393 this should probably be considered a bug that we need to fix...
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