> Users are used to work on characters, not on bytes. Absolutely true - but completely missing the point.
When I open a UTF-8 file name as displayed by nautilus the kernel does byte comparisons. The kernel doesn't care what character set is in use. > > So you either implement "match one byte", or you go crazy. It's that > > simple. > > Sure, you can limit what is possible and what not. If your regexps are reasonably complete you just have to turn the unicode match into a byte match. That is a user interface problem - in user space. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/