On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 02:53, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > Reuben Thomas asked: > > Also, do the maintainers have any better suggestion for what I should do > > than revert to GNU regex 0.12 for a2ps? > > AFAIU, regex syntax tables assume a 7-bit or 8-bit text encoding. But > nearly everyone nowadays uses a multibyte text encoding. So, I think you > will need to look for a new concept that replaces the regex syntax tables. >
GNU a2ps is only 8-bit, so that's not a problem here. (I'm not trying to update a2ps to modern standards, as I believe there are good modern tools already to accomplish what it does; rather, I'm just trying to make a new release with 15 years' fixes for existing users.) -- https://rrt.sc3d.org
