[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #35910] Incorrect regex matching of multi-byte UTF-8 characters

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #16, bug #35910 (project octave):

It's similar, but not bug #50409, because in that bug report you are clearly
pointing to something being initialized in the Windows terminal emulator.

I guess the behavior I'm seeing can be grouped into two bugs / questions:

* This change to regular expressions seems to require a UTF-8 locale be
active, is this simply a call to 'setlocale'? And where should this be done
for it to work correctly in octave-cli?

* If the above is correct, what should we do in cases where a user is running
Octave in a non-UTF-8 locale, for example LC_ALL=C? Should we only
conditionally add the "(*UTF8)" prefix to regular expressions when the locale
will support it? Or should we just let the error message I've shown happen?

    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35910>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via Savannah
  https://savannah.gnu.org/