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

[Michael Livshin <mlivshin bigfoot com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> writes:

> >     Derek> * Are there any other Unicode-supporting regex libs we can look at?
> > 
> > Although I haven't checked the copyright, IBM's ICU library has one.
> > The latest version of Perl has the best and most complete
> > implementation I've seen yet, but it would be tough to untangle it
> > from the surrounding code.
> 
> The Perl one looks viciously difficult to extract from Perl. I haven't
> looked at the ICU engine, I'll ask Owen about it, I know he's looked
> at ICU in general.

ISTR that the latest version of Henry Spencer's regexp library
supports UTF8 natively.

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