GNU bug report logs - #18817
\w is not synonym for [[:alnum:]] in UTF-8 locales

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad <at> redhat.com>

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 18817 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
To: 18817 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: \w is not synonym for [[:alnum:]] in UTF-8 locales
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:26:34 +0900

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
As \w and \W have been supported in single byte locales only, I added
support in multibyte locales.

[0001-dfa-support-for-w-and-W-in-multibyte-locale.patch (text/plain, attachment)]
This bug report was last modified 10 years and 212 days ago.

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