On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Jim Tittsler wrote:
> regexes because I believe it is locale dependent. It seemed to
> miss a couple of Japanese filenames generated by this latest
> worm. (Presumably because they contained chars (bytes) that
> are not in the word character table in my default locale.)
The regular expression engine in Exim is compiled in the "C" (or
default) locale, so only ASCII letters, digits, and underscore count as
"word" characters. Since emails are sent from and to many different
locales, it doesn't make sense to do anything else. IMHO.
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