Re: Multi-byte support in 'flex'

[W. L. Estes]

>       I've added support for multibyte characters to 'flex-2.5.4a'.  These
> changes do NOT allow multibyte characters to appear in patterns but allow the
> input to the generated scanner to contain multibyte characters.  I did not add
> support to all 'flex' modes (ex. '-+' to generate a C++ scanner) primarily
> because I don't have need for those modes but partly because I don't have time
> to develop tests for all of them.
>       Is this of any value to GNU?

If you'd like to submit a patch, then go ahead. There is already some
work done on unicode support for flex, but it's not integrated into
the code as of yet.

--Will