Re: MOKit
Re: MOKit
- Subject: Re: MOKit
- From: David P Henderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 21:23:27 -0400
On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 08:50 , Ondra Cada wrote:
On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 05:08 , Allan Odgaard wrote:
http://www.lorax.com is down. I want to do some RegEx, can someone
send me the MOKit or give me another address where I can download
it...
Try "man regex" -- you actually have a regex API with Darwin, although
not wrapped into an Objective-C class.
Not good. The standard regex does not support Unicode.
... there are billions and billions of code lines -- be it Cocoa
(written in OpenStep in those days when Macs still ran OS<9), plain C
(BSD, posix, ANSI), or shell scripts -- which were *NEVER* written with
unicode in mind, for the precious reason that they were written by
people who presumably never even heard of something alike. Thanks to
OSX, we (at last!) can use this huge code base.
There's a price though: this code does not, and never could, of course,
support all those unicode characters. In other words, it is relatively
unimportant whether your or mine applications would preserve unicode
characters or not, since ALWAYS there will be some ported code which
would not,
and therefore using unicode is and always will be inherently unsafe
(well, unless you stick with a very small number of carefully tested
applications).
Ridiculous argument :(
--
Chaos Assembly Werks
"A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on."
- Israel Zangwill (not Edward R. Murrow)
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