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From: Tristan <9p-st@imu.li>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Thu,  2 May 2013 09:43:10 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Octets regexp
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> And after some thought, I don't see an obvious reason why the regexp
> could not be used with bytes strings (so UTF-8 is OK) without trying to
> match runes (since not every bytes string is a correct UTF-8 sequence).

with octet based regexps, [=C3=9E=C3=BE] doesn't match =C3=BE, but 0xc3, =
0xbe and 0x9e
independantly.

tristan

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