[Lister] RegEx also in Unicode/UTF-8 display modes

[amachado]

It would be great if Regular Expressions could be enabled also for Unicode / UTF-8 display modes...

Thanks

[ghisler(Author)]

It could be done for Unicode UTF16, I'm already using a Unicode library for file names now. But for UTF-8 I don't know how to handle it, sorry.

[amachado]

Could this (utf8-chartable.de) be useful?

[ghisler(Author)]

The problem is that UTF-8 characters consist of multiple bytes. Therefore all the regex functions would need to be changed to handle that special case. This is especially difficult for things like ranges like [a-z] when dealing with non-English characters.

[amach]

It has been a long time since last reply; did something change in the meantime, so it could be possible now? At least for UTF-16 files...

[MVV]

ghisler,
Isn't it easier to convert UTF-8 to UTF-16 before displaying in Lister? So UTF-16 regex engine may be used for searching.

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, TC9 will do exactly that. It was added almost a year ago, on 22.03.15. Due to unresolved issues (no icon designer, problems with colors by folder) the release date of TC9 is still unknown, sorry.