From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-01-10T23:50:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01079] Re: [[:alpha:]] and its friends

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01077] [[:alpha:]] and its friends"
    on 00/01/09, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|Sorry to keep asking all these stupid questions, but...

It's not sutupit at all.  Thank you for the questions.

|Is the reason that the regexp constructs [[:alpha:]] etc, are not
|documented that they don't work with Kanji strings?

No.

They are there because original Emacs regexp had these features, and I
did not removed them.  They aren't documented because I haven't
decided them to be official yet, mostly because I'm not sure what to
do with locales and I18N (or M17N) stuff.

							matz.