problems with regex in Japanese?

[Paul Prescod]

Just van Rossum wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> How would PCRE ever be able to match groups of characters above code
> point 127, that are represented as more than one byte in utf-8? Or is
> that a limitation you decided to live with?

You would just match on the byte-patterns you expect. I think that's
more or less how Perl Unicode works.
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