On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 16:59, Tom Lane wrote: > Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Given that this problem isn't a regression, I don't think we need to > > delay 7.3.2 to fix it (of course, a fix for 7.3.3 and 7.4 is essential, > > IMHO). > > No, I've had to abandon my original thought that it was a localized bug, > so it's not going to be fixed in 7.3.2. > > The real problem is simply that we're up against design limitations of > the existing regex package, which was never designed for wider-than-8-bit > character sets. It's been rather crudely hacked while it was in our > hands (Henry Spencer would probably disown the code if he saw it now ;-)) > so that it sorta kinda does MULTIBYTE, but it's slow and I don't think > it's complete either. > > I'm about to go off and look at whether we can absorb the Tcl regex > package, which is Spencer's new baby.
Why not PCRE ( http://pcre.sourceforge.net/ ) ? They claim at least utf-8 (I don't remember other multibyte charsets being mentioned) support and have a BSD-ish license, http://pcre.sourceforge.net/license.txt . -- Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
