[antlr-interest] Using JFlex with Antlr

Johannes Luber jaluber at gmx.de
Wed Oct 3 08:58:07 PDT 2007


Andreas Ravnestad wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Given Antlrs lack of support for unicode, I am investigating the
> possibility of using JFlex as a lexer. I found one short thread about
> this matter in the archives, however it was not of much help since I
> have just recently moved to Antlr (coming from Yacc/CUP) and as such I
> am not familiar with the inner workings of Antlr (yet).
> 
> I would like to know if there is any documentation on switching to
> external lexers, and I will also appreciate any kind of hints and tips.
> I have already studied the C++ flex example, which didn't make me much
> wiser.
> 
> -Andreas R
> 

ANTLR does support unicode lexing. How do you figure that it doesn't?
Because it still reads only ASCII grammars in?

Best regards,
Johannes Luber


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