Yukihiro Matsumoto
3/30/2005 4:05:00 PM
Hi,
In message "Re: look-behind regexp ?"
on Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:29:03 +0900, "B. K. Oxley (binkley)" <binkley@alumni.rice.edu> writes:
|But reading through that and the documentation on the same site, I am
|still looking for a rationale document. Why Onigurama and not, say,
|PCRE? Why a new regexp parser?
PCRE does only support UTF-8 (as far as I know), not multiple
encodings like Ruby does. Oniguruma supports UTF-8, UTF-16,
ISO-8859-*, EUC-JP, Shift_JIS, and lot more.
matz.