From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 10:54:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] diff: funcname and word patterns for perl
Message-ID: <20101226105441.GA27039@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <201012261143.33190.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> +	 "|[^[:space:]]"),
>
> I think it should get the |[\x80-\xff]+ arm, too.  That one was
> designed to avoid splitting UTF-8 characters.  At the risk of gluing
> together too many of them, of course, but I think confusing the
> terminal would be worse.

Hmm.  Should it be

	|([\x80-\xff]+[\x00-\x7f])

then, to match exactly one multibyte UTF-8 character?