Re: slang: UTF-8 and strlen

["John E. Davis" <davis>]

Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Will a UTF-8 jed still be able to read and write iso-8859-1 text?

Yes.  If the locale is not UTF-8, then UTF-8 mode will not be enabled.
If the locale is UTF-8, then some sort of character set conversion
will need to be performed.  There is also the issue of editing UTF-8
text when in an 8bit locale.  I still need to work these details out.

>By the way how do I specify to a regexp \<word\> search what characters a
>word may be made up of?

There is no mechanism in place for that.  You may have to explicitly
indicate the characters you want to match in the RE.  S-Lang v2 will
allow access to more powerful REs via the PCRE library.

--John

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