Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:36:23 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>, hackers@freebsd.org, K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor@t-hosting.hu>, "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: <86bq211rqw.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <4855EDFE.3010708@FreeBSD.org> (Doug Barton's message of "Sun\, 15 Jun 2008 21\:37\:18 -0700") 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>
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Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes: > > 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. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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