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- Submitted-by: mak@mda.ca (Robert Makowski)
-
- On 21 Nov 91 21:15:00 GMT, gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) said:
- > Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
- >
- > No, to the contrary the existing regexp implementation was acultural;
- > you're referring to the idea that "[a-z]" for example ought to mean
- > "match any lowercase character in the current locale", but that is
- > NOT what it meant. It actually meant "match any byte having value
- > between the values I gave you around the dash-representation" (this
- > ... The ethocentricity was
- > introduced by 1003.2, presumably because people thought it would be
- > "nice" to be able to specify locale-dependent character classes; it
- > did not inhere in the previous regexp mechanism.
- >
- > ----- End of Excerpt gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
-
- Actually, it was not introduced by 1003.2, it was introduced by [nee]
- /usr/group's Internationalization Working Group at the SLC '87 meeting.
- I know, I hosted the meeting and was a party thereof.
-
- BTW, the 1003.2 connection is that p1003.2's PAR included
- internationalization requirements, for much the same reason as p1003.1.
- These ieee stds are all ISO inputs, and that's where the requirements
- originated.
-
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