On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:15:24PM +0000, David Hopwood wrote: > (The exception is that naïve substring searching could find a > match starting part-way through a character - but it would be easy to > reject false matches by looking at the previous byte.)
But the fact that systems that can search arbitrary 8-bit charsets can search UTF-8 has proven to be a useful ability in the Unix world. (Think also of sed and simple regexs.) -- David Starner / Давид Старнэр - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc."
