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Re: Notes about fixing regexes and UTF-8 (yet again)

Vik Reykja <vikreykja@gmail.com>

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From: Vik Reykja <vikreykja@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-02-19T04:11:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 05:03, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Vik Reykja <vikreykja@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does it make sense for regexps to have collations?
>
> As I understand it, collations determine the sort-ordering of strings.
>  Regular expressions don't care about that.  Why do you ask?
>

Perhaps I used the wrong term, but I was thinking the locale could tell us
what alphabet we're dealing with. So a regexp using en_US would give
different word-boundary results from one using zh_CN.