Re: [pcre-dev] About \x{}

>No. You have to use UTF-8 if you want to handle code values greater than
>FF. That is what UTF-8 is for.

Philip,

He's probably using one of the many multi-byte encoding common in
Eastern Asia and has no choice about that.

You're right pointing out UTF-8 at any rate, of course, since it's the
only way out the encoding maze.