From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-04-07T06:09:21+09:00
Subject: Re: how to match acented letters on windows

il Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:21:26 +0900, Sam Roberts <sroberts@certicom.com>
ha scritto::

>Are you sure you want to do this?

<snip>

well, I can't cause even if wovels have just one name in my home
language (i.e. a and � are just 'a') they may have great differences
in meaning. say,
passo stands for 'step' while pass� stands for 'passed'.

Anyway, my problem arises from a simple problem: counting words in a
file.
 I can't just count any \w+ block cause many of the letters are
considered wrong. 
 I could hardcode the values of accented letters in my script but if
the local settings for a user are different from mine an accented
value hardcoded in the script would still be different from the one
from the user  :/