From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-01-10T09:56:41-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01080] Re: [[:alpha:]] and its friends

matz@netlab.co.jp (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

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

Are \< and \> disabled for the same reason?

Dave