From: Philippe VERDY (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 12:40:33 CST
"Arcane Jill" wrote:
> As a programmer myself, I actually followed that explanation. But I wonder if
> it's the right approach. Would it not be a more ... interesting ... approach,
> to forget Flex, and instead write a brand new Unicode lexer generator which
> generates a lexer that processes characters (not bytes)?
I forgot to speak about the many lexer/scanner projects available in SourceForge.net. Many of them support Unicode.
See for example the results page, when searching for "lexer" in the SourceForge "software/group" category: See also the various references they contain for other similar open projects or commercial products.
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