Re: [Flex-devel] UTF-8

[Peter M. <pet...@gm...>]

With 8bit but without utf8, it shouldn't do the extra utf8 processing - in
particular, a 3byte char will match "..." rather than "."

-- sent from my phone, please excuse my brevity
On Jul 23, 2012 7:12 PM, "Paul" <pa...@pr...> wrote:

> Looking at Peter Martini's work, I think that when set as 8 bit, it will
> accept both ascii and utf-8.
> I would prefer to only accept utf-8 with a flex flag like:  %option utf8.
> I believe a generated scanner can be more efficient if it does not have
> to deal with utf-8.
> This seems to be a philosophical issue, so I would like opinions.
> I may be off the rails here.
>
> Paul Neelands
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