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From: "TJ Luoma" <luomat@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: input foo, output '[F|f][O|o][O|o]'?
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:11:13 -0400
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On 1 Jul 2013, at 20:38, Kurtis Rader wrote:

> In short, for any reasonable regex implementation there is no need to 
> resort to something as clumsy  as what you propose.

You would certainly be correct in the vast majority of cases. However, I 
happen to be dealing with one of the small percentages of exceptions, as 
the AddDescription implementation in Apache does not have a 'reasonable 
regex' implementation for this, as far as I have been able to tell.


> Keep in mind to that for anything other than ASCII this is impossible, 
> for all practical purposes, to implement correctly using the strategy 
> you had in mind.

Yup. But these are filenames on a web server and will only be ASCII.

Thanks again

TjL