[antlr-interest] case sensitivity for ANTLR v3 lexers

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Tue May 16 14:01:39 PDT 2006


On May 16, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Martin Probst wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> We should also probably let people set the locale for the  
>> uppercasing, right?
>
> Doesn't it (=Java) use the correct locale by default? I'm not sure  
> there is a difference within Latin character sets, and for other  
> stuff you need to use IBM ICU or something comparable anyways.  
> Maybe just allowing to override matches(char c) is indeed enough.

Yep, but you might be reading a file from another locale...across a  
socket for example.

Ter



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