Re: GLib: wide-character gregex?

[Mark Leisher <mleisher math nmsu edu>]

Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
> Is there a regex package in GLib that is capable of searching/matching 
> wide characters? It’s not absolutely crucial to my project, since at 
> this point, there shouldn’t be any wide characters in any of the file 
> contents… but for future reference, I would like to try and track down a 
> wchar_t implementation of regex functions. I was hoping GLib already had 
> them, but perhaps I am wrong.

Your best bet is http://www.pcre.org and to expect the text to be in 
UTF-8. Any files not in UTF-8 can be converted using something like 
iconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/).

Messing about with wchar_t can get a little tricky at times.
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Mark Leisher