X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382B6D72DD for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 13:15:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39701-02 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 16:15:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gauss.credativ.com (ipx11302.ipxserver.de [212.112.227.254]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B434D6F35 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 13:15:31 -0300 (ADT) Received: from bell.credativ.de (p508955D6.dip.t-dialin.net [80.137.85.214]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gauss.credativ.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB20D7656; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 18:19:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Eisentraut To: Harald Fuchs Subject: Re: POSIX Regular Expression question Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 18:15:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org References: <431C4EB2.80401@mediaroot.de> <200509051619.29210.peter_e@gmx.net> <87k6hv7cay.fsf@srv.protecting.net> In-Reply-To: <87k6hv7cay.fsf@srv.protecting.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509051815.22529.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.05 required=5 tests=[FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.05] X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200509/39 X-Sequence-Number: 22586 Am Montag, 5. September 2005 17:40 schrieb Harald Fuchs: > How so? I thought character ranges are more an encoding than a locale > issue. That is incorrect. > I dunno the details of the supported encodings, but is there > any encoding where 'a-z' includes more or less than 26 letters? Well, it seems that our regexp library interprets [a-z] as exactly 26 letters, but that seems to be a lack of locale support rather than a feature. There are statements in the documentation of other regexp libraries that directly contradict this behavior. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/