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authortjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2005-08-17 11:21:15 +0000
committertjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2005-08-17 11:21:15 +0000
commit92f771be39b581d179dbc96ace4f4e459583f537 (patch)
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parent67b0f0cb388fe1fb060449d04c30351263237151 (diff)
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Document the fact that word-boundary matching does not work
properly in multibyte locales.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/regex')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/regex/regex.34
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/regex/regex.3 b/lib/libc/regex/regex.3
index 9d101e9..c3180af 100644
--- a/lib/libc/regex/regex.3
+++ b/lib/libc/regex/regex.3
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\" @(#)regex.3 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/20/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 12, 2004
+.Dd August 17, 2005
.Dt REGEX 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -727,3 +727,5 @@ behavior in such cases should not be relied on.
.Pp
The implementation of word-boundary matching is a bit of a kludge,
and bugs may lurk in combinations of word-boundary matching and anchoring.
+.Pp
+Word-boundary matching does not work properly in multibyte locales.
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