Re: Glib Unicode regex (was: Gtk::Text widget)

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Derek Simkowiak wrote:

> -> > 	Somebody posted a Glib-ized regex to the list a few weeks ago, and
> -> > it got some feedback and went through a couple of iterations.  Is there
> -> > any reason not to add it to Glib?  I think it would be very useful to
> -> > have.
> -> 
> -> No Unicode support.
> 
> 	Mark Leisher has developed a regex library hat uses UTF-16
> internally.  It can be found at
> 
> http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/
> 
> 	I think a Glib regex would be very cool to have, for the text
> widget and for general use.
> 
> 	Is anyone interested in porting this into the Glib style?  And,
> would people be willing to consider it for Glib 2.0?  (I don't have time
> to work on this right now, just trying to get the project going)
> 
> 	Outstanding issues: 
> 
> *  Does "UTF-16 internally" mean that it will only work on a UTF-16
> encoded buffer?
> 
> *  Will the GTK+ team insist on a regex lib that uses UTF-8 internally?
> 
> *  Are there any other Unicode-supporting regex libs we can look at?

  I think new perl regex stuff could be considered since recent perl supports 
Unicode (in regexes too), though I afraid it's tightly integrated with the
language. But probably Mark's lib is better.

> 
> Thanks,
> Derek
> 

 Best regards,
  -Vlad