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LOCALIZATION
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See chapter 'Customization Localization and UTF-8' in the
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Users Manual and the usage of 'set-locale' function in the
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Function Reference.
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The 'set-locale' function will not influence the behaviour of
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PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) in newLISP, but a
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special option flag number can be set to support UTF-8 in all
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functions supporting regular expressions like: regex, find,
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replace, parse and search.
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To further localize the behaviour of regular expressions in newLISP
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the file 'pcre-chartables.c' must be replaced with a localized
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version. To obtain this file for your locale, follow these steps:
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(1) get the pcre source distribution from http://www.pcre.org
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(2) follow the instruction in it's README file to 'configure'
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and 'make' it. An installation is not necessary. Just using
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the 'configure' and 'make' steps will create a file called
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'chartables.c' suitable for the locale on your computer
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system. Rename this file to 'pcre-chartables.c', which it
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replaces in the newLISP source distribution.
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(3) recompile newLISP
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newLISP will now show regular expression behaviour in functions
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like 'regex', 'find', 'replace' and 'parse' appropiate to your
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locale. The function 'set-locale' should still be used to change
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all other aspects of newLISP to your locale.
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newLISP can be used with multi-byte character languages when
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compiled with UTF-8 options. For some OS flavors UTF-8 enabled
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makefile are shipped in the source distribution.
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When compiled with UTF-8 character handling some newLISP functions
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will work on multibyte characters instead of single bytes. See
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the manual for details.
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