On Thursday 19 February 2004 4:02 pm, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>   Great.  Before I was going to ask the question, Avi asked it, and
> now Ned answers it.
>
>   I haven't try it by myself, but does this "UTF-8 support" handle
> characters outside of BMP?

Don't know. It looks like you could say: \x{2fffffff} as an escape sequence.

>   It shouldn't be too hard to support it from m17n Squeak.  It would
> give me one less reason to use Ruby now and then^^; However, we're
> going to lose the ability to Japanese/Chinese sensitive search, hmm.

Could you decorate the strings before passing them to the regex engine and 
then strip them after (i.e. add tags)?

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Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/