On 07/13/2010 10:16 AM, Stephan Bosch wrote:
The standard regexp library does not support unicode and I was not
planning to write my own regexp compiler any time soon.
I wouldn't want to write one as well.
As a matter of fact, I haven't looked at TRE before. I'm quite
interested though, since it is backwards compatible with POSIX and
seems to be available in most systems. I'll give it a closer look,
also in terms of compatibility with the latest draft of the Sieve
regex extension specification.
Regards,
Stephan.
There are a few odd things about the wide character support in TRE.
Either you need to convert each message to wchar_t and make sure you set
the system encoding to wchar_t, or you need to set the system encoding
for each message, which may or may not mess up your UTF-8 regex.
My project is an Internet Classifier (used with things like Squid proxy
to make a filter). I convert everything to wchar_t (using iconv with
info gathered from headers) and use the wide character versions of the
functions. That way I know everything is just fine. I then have the
program set the system encoding (at least the environment variable for
the given session) to UTF-8 before I do any of the regex compiling.
Everything works wonderfully and quite quickly.
I am not sure TRE is available on all systems where dovecot is designed
to be compiled. I know it is for most, if not all, Unix-like systems. I
use it in Fedora.
Anyway, thank you your work on pigeonhole.
Trever
