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      To: moleary@primus.com
      Subject: Re: Flex / Unicode compatibility question
      In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:15:42 PDT.
      Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:06:13 PDT
      From: Vern Paxson <vern>
 
      Unfortunately flex at the moment has a widespread assumption within it
      that characters are processed 8 bits at a time.  I don't see any easy
      fix for this (other than writing your rules in terms of double characters -
      a pain).  I also don't know of a wider lex, though you might try surfing
      the Plan 9 stuff because I know it's a Unicode system, and also the PCCT
      toolkit (try searching say Alta Vista for "Purdue Compiler Construction
      Toolkit").
 
      Fixing flex to handle wider characters is on the long-term to-do list.
      But since flex is a strictly spare-time project these days, this probably
      won't happen for quite a while, unless someone else does it first.
 
      		Vern
 
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