From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-03-31T01:05:00+09:00
Subject: Re: look-behind regexp ?

Hi,

In message "Re: look-behind regexp ?"
    on Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:29:03 +0900, "B. K. Oxley (binkley)" <binkley@alumni.rice.edu> writes:

|But reading through that and the documentation on the same site, I am 
|still looking for a rationale document.  Why Onigurama and not, say, 
|PCRE?  Why a new regexp parser?

PCRE does only support UTF-8 (as far as I know), not multiple
encodings like Ruby does.  Oniguruma supports UTF-8, UTF-16,
ISO-8859-*, EUC-JP, Shift_JIS, and lot more.

							matz.