Python and UTF-8

[Wolfgang Strobl]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 20:41:24 +0100, Matthias Huening
<matthias.huening at t-online.de> wrote :

>Martin von Loewis <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote in 
>news:j4itajb9jx.fsf at informatik.hu-berlin.de:
>
>>> How to use regular expressions with Unicode?
>> 
>> Just use the re module: it fully supports Unicode.
>> 
>
>Not really...
>At least the combination of re.I and re.U fails on texts in German. 
>But that again could be a result of the combination of 'locale' and 
>Unicode, right?

S.I doesn't honor the locale settings. From the manual:

IGNORECASE
Perform case-insensitive matching; expressions like [A-Z] will match
lowercase letters, too. This is not affected by the current locale



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