Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

From: Kyle Moffett
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 03:27:16 EST


On Nov 06, 2007, at 01:33:05, Adrian Bunk wrote:
Can you limit this to 7bit ASCII and use isascii() somewhere?

Otherwise I'd expect funny things to happen when you e.g. use isspace() on the UTF-8 encoded character à.

Actually, you don't need to. You tell them it expects UTF-8 encoded strings and be done with it. All US-ASCII characters from 0 through 127 (IE: high bit clear) are exactly the same in UTF-8, and UTF-8 special characters have the high bit set in all bytes. Therefore you just assume that anything with the high bit set is part of a word and you can handle basic UTF-8. (It doesn't work on special UTF-8 space characters like nonbreaking space and similar, but handling those is significantly more complicated).

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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