[Indic-computing-devel] Re: [LIG] Regexp and Indian languages ?

[Sayamindu D. <say...@cl...>]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:06 -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> So I was thinking about how one would go about using regular expressions
> with an Indian language while I was brushing my teeth this morning.
> 
> The current syntax seems to be "character" oriented. For eg, f.o matches foo.
> However, if I want to write a regexp such as:
> 
> su . la .
> 
> that matches 
> 
> su bbu la xmi 
> 
> we need to introduce a new concept of a syllable into the regexp
> syntax. For eg: "_" might mean one syllable as opposed to "." which
> means one character.
> 
> In other words "su_la_" would match subbulaxmi. This simple minded
> proposal would mean that the zillions of existing regexps which use
> "_" without suspecting it to be a special character would be broken.

This link may be of interest
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/

-thanks-
Sayamindu