Re: [tlug] Japanese regex question

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 8/24/05, Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com> wrote:

> I don't know how much experience you have with J-regex but the biggest
> issue is anchoring. Because it's double byte you can't be sure you're
> matching from the first byte of a character.

I am fairly certain that with Unicode, Perl 5.8 regular expressions
handle the multi-byte encoding properly and do not treat strings as
arrays of bytes.

-Josh