Re: Unicode lexical analisis and parsing with flex and bison in C++?

schwartz@finch.cse.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
14 Jan 1998 14:45:24 -0500

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From: schwartz@finch.cse.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 14 Jan 1998 14:45:24 -0500
Organization: PSU CSE
References: 98-01-042
Keywords: lex, i18n, comment

> [... I believe that Plan 9 has a unicode version of lex, might want
> to see what they did. -John]

The lex manpage at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/man1.html says:

BUGS
        Cannot handle UTF.
        The asteroid to kill this dinosaur is still in orbit.

[I can't tell whether they're referring to the source code to the Bell
Labs lex, which is indeed some of the worst C code I've ever seen, or
the whole idea of lex, which still seems pretty useful. -John]
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