Subject: Re: Regular expressions in Unicode (Was: Ethiopic text)

From: Alain LaBonté <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:36:44 -0500

A 04:17 98-03-12 -0800, Jeroen Hellingman a écrit :
>his field of knowledge, ASCII can be overseen, but Unicode is too large
>for most people to oversee the effects of a range selection.

[Alain] :
Even ASCII range is problematic in English...

"A to Z" does not imply "a to z", does it ?

One should not expect the end-user to know what is under the hood!

And "A to z" leads to no hit in EBCDIC, while "a to Z" will leads to no hit
in ASCII!

Alain LaBonté
Québec