From 92f771be39b581d179dbc96ace4f4e459583f537 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tjr Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:21:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the fact that word-boundary matching does not work properly in multibyte locales. --- lib/libc/regex/regex.3 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/regex/regex.3 b/lib/libc/regex/regex.3 index 9d101e95c2f1..c3180afcca81 100644 --- a/lib/libc/regex/regex.3 +++ b/lib/libc/regex/regex.3 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .\" @(#)regex.3 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/20/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd July 12, 2004 +.Dd August 17, 2005 .Dt REGEX 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -727,3 +727,5 @@ behavior in such cases should not be relied on. .Pp The implementation of word-boundary matching is a bit of a kludge, and bugs may lurk in combinations of word-boundary matching and anchoring. +.Pp +Word-boundary matching does not work properly in multibyte locales.