In <4236639181988702.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on
10/30/2013
at 10:16 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>So the programmer codes in a regex /[abc]/, where '[' and ']' are
>radically locale-sensitive. Must PCRE query the locale to suss out
>what '[' means,
That would be reasonable.
>or translate all input and output to a canonical
>character set?
That would also require knowing the locale, or at least the character
set.
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