Re: Regex with unicode support in glib?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Mikael Hermansson <mikeh bahnhof se> writes:
> 
> I am working on my new syntax highlight widget, gtksource*,
> that will use the new TextView/Buffer as baseclasses.
> 
> Infact it already is working nicely :-) Except one thing
> the regex library (GNU regex 0.12) is not supporting UTF8 :-/
> 
> Now I am wonder what has happened with the plan to implement
> regex with unicode support to glib?
> 
> Has this plan been dumped for upcoming Glib 2.0?
> 

Yeah, we didn't have time. It will go in some future version of GLib.

If this is a code editor, you'll probably only have ASCII everywhere
but in comments, so a regular regex engine would probably work OK...

Havoc