From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-04-02T03:44:26+09:00
Subject: Re: how to match acented letters on windows

On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 02:16:55 +0900, Mark Hubbart wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2004, at 6:27 AM, Peter Hickman wrote:
>> Stephan K�mper wrote:
>>
>> Well if your locale was french then you would expect the accented 
>> characters to match those used in french but it should ignore the 
>> icelandic thorn of the dutch y umlaut thingy.
>>
>> So the answer is depends, and it depends on locale.
> 
> I wouldn't want it set based on a pre-set locale... I don't think that 
> would be dynamic enough. What if you need to match characters from more 
> than one language?
> 
> Maybe this should be handled by character classes? What if we could 
> modify a character class with a country/language code? Something like:
> 

Have a look at this document for more info about i18n/m17n in regexp
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/

However neither Gnu nor Oniguruma supports it fully.

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Simon Strandgaard