Re: unicode support in flex

[John W. Millaway]

> I would like to know if there are any plans to integrate the famous flex
> unicode patch. If not, I'd like to know why since the patch does not
> seem intrusive and is very useful.

Yes, it is now on the table. However, the unicode patch is very intrusive and
widespread, actually, as compared to, say, the yylineno/REJECT fix we talked
about last week. So it needs thorough testing. As far as I know, it has
undergone none. The reentrant stuff is done, now, so the patch can't be
*directly* applied to the source anyway. But it shouldn't be a problem to redo
the patch, in spirit, since it appears to be nicely documented and we now have
a battery of regression tests. Also, we should verify that the methods used in
the patch (~10 years ago?) are still the correct methods used to supporting
unicode, and more importantly, that the tables don't explode.


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