Re: EggRegex

[Marco Barisione <barisione gmail com>]

Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Per http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt
>
>        "The current implementation of PCRE (release
>        6.x) corresponds approximately with Perl  5.8,  including  support  for
>        UTF-8 encoded strings and Unicode general category properties. However,
>        this support has to be explicitly enabled; it is not the default."

Today most distributions ship a copy of pcre that supports utf-8 and 
unicode properties.

However you can pass --enable-internal-pcre to configure to statically 
link an internal copy of pcre.

If eggregex links to a pcre version without unicode egg_regex_new() 
prints an error message and fails.

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Marco Barisione
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