Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:28:10 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor@t-hosting.hu>, Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Subject: Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo] Message-ID: <20080617002808.GB16122@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20080617002224.GA16122@nagual.pp.ru> References: <485453F2.60507@FreeBSD.org> <4854BC29.3060507@FreeBSD.org> <4854C96A.1080603@aueb.gr> <48556AAD.9010602@t-hosting.hu> <20080615212613.GA97326@nagual.pp.ru> <4855EDFE.3010708@FreeBSD.org> <86bq211rqw.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080617002224.GA16122@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:22:25AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:36:23PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > > > > Please note that BSD grep is not localized (and can't be per design) > > > > and works only with standard C locale. It may not affect ports > > > > system processing but shurely affects real texts handling. > > > That is very troubling. In this day and age localization is a > > > requirement. I cannot imagine being supportive of adding something to > > > the base that does not have this capability. > > > > We don't have a locale-aware regex implementation. Henry Spencer wrote > > one for Tcl 8, and it seems to be under an MIT-equivalent license, but > > I'm not sure how hard it would be to extirpate. It might be easier to > > lift it from PostgreSQL, which also uses it. > > No, we have it already for many years (libc/regexec). > BSD grep problem is different one, they use upper half of 256 char table > on their own. Oops, sorry I am thinking about BSD _sort_ when writing last statement. BSD grep is even not bothering to call setlocale(). I can't say is it can be simple healed by adding that call, some test suite run is needed. -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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