[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#702617: Bug#702617: . fails to match certian characters

[Joey Hess]

Joachim Breitner wrote:
> regex-compat is but a thin layour around regex-posix, which states
>         Note that the posix library works with single byte characters,
>         and does not understand Unicode. If you need Unicode support you
>         will have to use a different backend.¹

Right. However, ò is not actually unicode, I think it's ISO8859-15.

Also I'm not trying to do anything that requires knowledge of unicode.
Even if the library sees [byte, byte], "^.*$" should still match all
the bytes.

> It also makes suggestions for alternative regex libraries:

I'm using -tdfa, filed bug for completeness.

-- 
see shy jo
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