Re: make check fails if no en_US.iso88591 locale

[Neil Jerram]

Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm not much of a regex guy, but, here's a couple of examples.  First
> one that sort of works as expected.
>
> guile> (string-match "sé" "José") 
> ==> #("José" (2 . 5))
>
> Regex properly matches the word, but, the match struct (2 . 5) is
> referring to the bytes of the string, not the characters of the string.

That's with a UTF-8 locale, isn't it?  With latin-1 I suppose the
numbers would be (2 . 4), right?

> Here's one that doesn't work as expected.
>
> guile> (string-match "[:lower:]" "Hi, mom")
> ==> #("Hi, mom" (5 . 6))
> guile> (string-match "[:lower:]" "Hí, móm")
> ==> #f
>
> Once you add accents on the vowels, nothing matches.
>
> Thanks,

Thank you!  Do you think it would be good to add these examples to the
manual?  (I'm happy to do that if so.)

       Neil