From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-06-11T07:59:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Alternate Regular Expressions Library

Hi,

In message "Alternate Regular Expressions Library"
    on 02/06/11, Dennis Newbold <dennisn@pe.net> writes:

|I'd like to suggest to the active Ruby developers, that this library be
|used in the next major Ruby release instead of the current GNU library.

Unofrtunately, PCRE does not satisfy all of my needs, for example
multibyte character handling.  We already developed a new regex engine
for Ruby code-named "Oniguruma".  It will be used in the future
release of Ruby.

							matz.