From: Tim Bray <tbray@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T17:33:54+09:00
Subject: Re: state of unicode support

On Jul 28, 2006, at 12:13 PM, why the lucky stiff wrote:

> First, Onigurama[2] is a regular expression engine.  It supports  
> Unicode regular
> expressions under many encodings, it's very handy.  If all you want  
> to do is
> search strings for Unicode text, then great, use it.

Er uh well it doesn't do unicode properties so you can't use things  
like \p{L} which, once you've found them, quickly come to feel  
essential.  Anytime you write [a-zA-Z] in a regex, you've probably  
just uttered a bug  So I would say that Oniguruma has holes.

Otherwise, a very useful landslide indeed. -Tim