From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-08-01T00:25:23+09:00
Subject: Re: state of unicode support (OT)

Tim Bray wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Alex Young 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}
>>
>>
>> Off topic, what does/would that do?  Match a lower-case symbol?
> 
> 
> Unicode characters have named properties.  "L" means it's a letter.   
> There are sub-properties like Lu and Ll for upper and lower case.   
> There are lots more properties for things like being numbers, being  
> white-space, combining forms and particular properties of Asian  
> characters and so on.  Tremendously useful in regexes, particularly  for 
> those of us round-eye gringos who are prone to write [a-zA-Z] and  think 
> we're matching letters, which we're not.  If you don't support  
> properties, you don't support Unicode. -Tim
> 
> 
Gotcha.  Thanks for that.

-- 
Alex