Re: Regexp library within glib2.0?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

James Henstridge <james daa com au> writes:
> On 18 Apr 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > > I remember, that 2 years! ago everyone agreed, that we should use nice library
> > > from Phil Hazel - PCRE, which provides Perl RE together with POSIX compatiable
> > > ones. Current version 3.4 has basic UTF8 support, even, I'm not sure, how comp-
> > > lete it is.
> >
> > It didn't have UTF-8 support last we checked. This was the main reason
> > it was not usable.
> 
> Was the python SRE engine considered?  I remember a post from one of the
> python developers suggesting its use.
> 

Yeah, I think it was still in beta at the time or something. We looked
at it I know.

Sounds like we have a couple options for doing this for 2.2.

Havoc