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

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Jean-Christophe Deschamps wrote:

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

Ah, I see. Unfortunately the answer is still the same ... PCRE doesn't
support it. As you probably know from this list, we are starting to work
on 16-bit support, but that will mainly be for UTF-16, not other forms
of multibyte encoding.

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

I agree (and I'm not particularly keen about UTF-16, though it is
clearly quite widely used).

Philip

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Philip Hazel