On Thu, 22 May 2008, Andrea Govoni wrote:
> - [a-z\xb5\xdf-\xf6\xf8-\xff]
> + [a-z\xaa\xb5\xba\xdf-\xf6\xf8-\xff]
If I recall correctly, the two extra characters \xaa and \xba are sometimes
considered letters by some people, and not letters by others. I cannot easily
check at the moment because I am in Morocco, teaching email at an Internet
workshop for the next week. I won't be home for a couple of weeks, and then I'm
away again shortly afterwards, so it will probably be July before I have time
to even think about doing any work on PCRE.
> Is this failure Apple's fault (if this is the case, I could submit a bug
> report to Apple) or is it a bug in the PCRE library's test suite?
My guess is that the folks who build the Apple locale files think those chars
should be in, and the folks who build the Linux locale files that I use to test
think the other way. One of the items on the PCRE "must do this sometime" list
is to ship a private locale file to be used for the tests, so this kind of
problem doesn't occur. But don't hold your breath.
Bottom line: I don't think this is a bug - it's a difference of opinion!
Philip
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Philip Hazel
