On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:15:24PM +0000, David Hopwood wrote:
> (The exception is that naïve substring searching could find a
> match starting part-way through a character - but it would be easy to
> reject false matches by looking at the previous byte.)
But the fact that systems that can search arbitrary 8-bit charsets can
search UTF-8 has proven to be a useful ability in the Unix world. (Think
also of sed and simple regexs.)
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