From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-04-07T09:35:50+09:00
Subject: Re: how to match acented letters on windows

Quoteing surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com, on Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:09:21AM +0900:
> 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. 

How about doing the opposite, counting the number of blocks that
are not space characters?

  [^\s]+

Cheers,
Sam