Re: Multibyte/Wide Character Sets and Lex.

schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
12 Feb 1996 23:44:45 -0500

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From: schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 12 Feb 1996 23:44:45 -0500
Organization: Penn State Comp Sci & Eng
References: 96-02-065 96-02-105
Keywords: lex, i18n

"Sandy Harris" <sharris@fox.nstn.ca> writes:
| Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a new distributed OS from the research
| group that created Unix & C & C++ & . . . It uses Unicode and
| includes a version of Lex. I think the Lex handles Unicode, but
| I'm not certain.


The regexp code in libc does, but lex doesn't. The bugs section of
the man page (available from the plan9 web pages) says: "Doesn't
handle UTF. The asteroid to kill this dinosaur is still in orbit."
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