[Geany-devel] Use of Scintilla word boundaries for word searches

Dimitar Zhekov dimitar.zhekov at xxxxx
Mon Aug 22 18:55:33 UTC 2011


On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:22:09 +0200
Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:

> > grep uses plain char and doesn't support UTF-8. [...]
> 
> ...but б@боза@@ will match (at least using UTF-8), [...]

Neither the character classes nor the upper/lower cases will work
properly if you feed an 8-bit char program with UTF-8. grep -i -w
produce lots of false positives and/or negatives, and so will the
[] sets. Except for the 8859-1 characters, of course.

-- 
E-gards: Jimmy



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