Andrey Chernov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > We don't have a locale-aware regex implementation.  Henry Spencer
> > wrote one for Tcl 8, and it seems to be under an MIT-equivalent
> > license, but I'm not sure how hard it would be to extirpate.  It
> > might be easier to lift it from PostgreSQL, which also uses it.
> No, we have it already for many years (libc/regexec).

I hadn't noticed...  ISTR it was an issue back when jphoward wrote his
BSD-licensed grep.

However, it's not the same engine - it's Spencer's old engine with
multibyte support added.  IIRC, it performs very poorly compared to the
GNU regexp engine; it would be interesting to see how well the Tcl
engine performs in comparison.

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