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>Date: 6 Feb 1997 13:52:17 EST
>From: <alexis@VNET.IBM.COM>
>To: <alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca>
>Subject: Regular expressions for non-English languages
>
>To: UMAVS --TOROLAB6 Uma Umamaheswaran
> LaBont<e'>, Alain <alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca>
>cc: CHUPA --TOROLAB6 Chupa, Ken
>
>From: C.Y.Alexis Cheng, National Language Technical Centre
>IBM Mail: CAIB2499 at IBMMAIL Internet: alexis@vnet.ibm.com
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>Subject: Regular expressions for non-English languages
>
>Hi there,
>
>Someone asked about regular expressions for non-English languages.
>Please forward this note to whomever was asking that question.
>Thanks.
>
>Version 2 of the X/Open "Internationalisation Guide" mentions
>an enhancement to the regular expression syntax to support
>a particular language based on its active locale.
>E.g. Instead of using "(a-z)" to denote all lower case
>letters, where ( and ) are really square brackets,
>one would specify it as "(:lower:)", which would be locale
>sensitive. Another example is "(=a=)", which would match
>all instances of the lower case letter 'a', including a, a acute,
>a grave, etc. "((.ch.)-e)" would match all characters between
>'ch' and 'e'. Commands affected by this enhancement include
>awk, ed, egrep, expr, grep, gp, and sed. For existing
>regular expressions, the Guide suggests shell scripts imported
>from non-internationalized environments be executed in the default
>POSIX (or C) locale.
>
>Cheers, Alexis
>
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