From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-07-28T02:29:09+09:00
Subject: Re: ctype / isprint ?

Hi,

In message "Re: ctype / isprint ?"

|>   "a b c" =~ /\A[[:print:]]*\z/    #=> 0
|>
|>   "a \0 c" =~ /\A[[:print:]]*\z/   #=> nil
|
|is that locale senstive?

1.8 regex uses C ctype macros, so that it is locale sensitive.
Oniguruma (1.9 regex engine) does not use locales.  It uses encoding
information, since C locale model is just not suitable to handle
multiple encoding schemes in a program, like Oniguruma does.

							matz.