[ragel-users] UTF-8 problems with Java

[aslak hellesoy]

I just came across contrib/unicode2ragel.rb
I'll give that a spin :-)

Aslak

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:39 PM, aslak hellesoy
<aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> First of all - thanks a lot for Ragel - it's awesome. We're using it
> to implement a fast parser for http://cukes.info/.
>
> I'm having problems scanning text when the keywords in the .rl file
> uses UTF-8 characters.
> This is easy to reproduce with the java1.rl example:
> http://svn.complang.org/ragel/trunk/test/java1.rl
>
> $ ragel -J java1.rl && javac java1.java && java java1
> ACCEPT
> FAIL
> FAIL
>
> Now, replace hello with hællø in both the machine declaration (line
> 15) and the main method (line 38):
>
> $ ragel -J java1.rl && javac java1.java && java java1
> FAIL
> FAIL
> FAIL
>
> Is this a Ragel bug, or am I doing something wrong?
> I'm using Ragel 6.5, OS X Leopard and Java 1.5.
>
> Cheers,
> Aslak
>