Re: unicode internal

Ben> do we dump trex? what the hell does it do, anyway? Move it out of the mule-base package, I should think. It looks to me like it does the same thing that our C code does: produce an array of bytecodes for the compiled regular expression VM. Or maybe it generates a finite automaton in LISP. That would be cool. I'll translate the comments some day. Ben> or have a global var. just for these commands? Ben> i meant, a user-settable global variable that controls the Ben> operation only of query-replace-regexp and other user-level Ben> commands. Ah, I hadn't started thinking about that. Yeah, that would work, since real code only ever sees compiled regexps. We can add bells and whistles like 'ask-about-re-syntax, too. Ben> but japanese and chinese fonts cover the same space. Of course, but you can't win that unless you know whether the author wants the *extent* to be interpreted as Chinese or as Japanese. It's not a per-character thing, it's a text property. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.