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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:31:35 -0400
From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc/plan9
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:35:02PM -0700, Geoff Collyer wrote:
> Speaking of scanners, I found that somebody has modified flex to scan
> Unicode input (and cranked up the table sizes appropriately).  I'm
> wondering if it's worth modifying it further to scan UTF-8 instead so
> it could be used instead of the sorts of tricks I've used to make lex
> scan UTF-8.

Per usual, both Russ and I have very similar code that
will deal with this without bloating the tables too much.
I was using it for a different, more specialized purpose
and since I never use lex with C, I didn't actually bother
to update lex:

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