From alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca Thu Mar 12 15:40:22 1998 Received: from lys.sgo.gouv.qc.ca (dns1.gouv.qc.ca [192.197.162.1]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA26046 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:40:16 +0100 Received: from laba01 (ppp126.gouv.qc.ca [192.197.162.126]) by lys.sgo.gouv.qc.ca (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id JAA29876; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:29:59 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980312093644.00771f34@entree.sct.gouv.qc.ca> X-Sender: alabonte@entree.sct.gouv.qc.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) [F] Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:36:44 -0500 To: unicode@unicode.org From: Alain LaBonté  Subject: Re: Regular expressions in Unicode (Was: Ethiopic text) In-Reply-To: <9803121217.AA21574@unicode.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A 04:17 98-03-12 -0800, Jeroen Hellingman a =E9crit : >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 h= it in ASCII! Alain LaBont=E9 Qu=E9bec