Unicode and chunk expressions

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Tue May 17 17:06:09 EDT 2005


On May 17, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> I need to dive into Unicode and it seems there are a number of 
> limitations, among these the loss of chunk expressions when working 
> with double-byte languages.  Is that correct?
>
> The app I'm working on for that makes extensive use of chunk 
> expressions -- am I back to the old-school-language methods of walking 
> through every character to parse it?

You can convert to UTF8 and then work with the chunk expression for 
line and item and (maybe word).

Dar
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