Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:36:23PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
Please note that BSD grep is not localized (and can't be per design)
and works only with standard C locale. It may not affect ports
system processing but shurely affects real texts handling.
That is very troubling. In this day and age localization is a
requirement. I cannot imagine being supportive of adding something to
the base that does not have this capability.

We don't have a locale-aware regex implementation. Henry Spencer wrote
one for Tcl 8, and it seems to be under an MIT-equivalent license, but
I'm not sure how hard it would be to extirpate. It might be easier to
lift it from PostgreSQL, which also uses it.

No, we have it already for many years (libc/regexec).
BSD grep problem is different one, they use upper half of 256 char table
on their own.

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