From: Nick Snels <nick.snels@...>
Date: 2006-01-30T05:53:41+09:00
Subject: Premature end of regular expression with non-ascii character

Hi,

I'm trying to get regular expressions to work with a string that 
contains letters with accents. I have the following sentence:

De kin辿 weet 辿辿n van hun pati谷nten te overtuigen om gekke dingen te 
doen.

The regexp /pati谷nten/ matches the word pati谷nten. However when I do the 
regexp /kin辿/, I get the error 'premature end of regular expression: 
/kin辿/ (SyntaxError)'. Can anybody tell me what is going on? Another 
issue with the same sentence is, when I use the regexp /\s/ to highlight 
all the spaces, the space between 'kin辿 weet' is not highlighted as a 
space. It seems like regular expressions cann't handle non-ascii 
characters at the end of a string.

Kind regards,

Nick

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