Date Zimlet Translation

[pbruna]

Hi,
im translating the Zimlet to recognize Spanish dates formats, the zimlet is almost finished, but im having problems with this REGEX:

var $RE_NEXT_THIS_LAST = "(pr\u00f3ximo|este|\u00faltimo)";

as you see, \u00faltimo = último, but the regex engine is not matching this word, truly the regex engine its not matching any word that starts with an UTF-8 cacharacter.

any ideas?

[deepblue]

Originally Posted by pbruna

Hi,
im translating the Zimlet to recognize Spanish dates formats, the zimlet is almost finished, but im having problems with this REGEX:

var $RE_NEXT_THIS_LAST = "(pr\u00f3ximo|este|\u00faltimo)";

as you see, \u00faltimo = último, but the regex engine is not matching this word, truly the regex engine its not matching any word that starts with an UTF-8 cacharacter.

any ideas?

Hi,

I can confirm that. It seem impossible to match a word starting with a UTF-8 character. Did you find a solution or a workaround for that?

Thanks and Regards
Thomas

[pbruna]

I could not resolve this issue.

[deepblue]

Originally Posted by pbruna

I could not resolve this issue.

But in the meanwhile I could :-)

The problem is not the UTF-8 char in the beginning of the word, but the word boundary "\b" metacharacter.

The "\b" apperently matches the first byte of the UTF-8 character preventing the remaining regexp to match against the word.

You can verify this when you remove the first "\\b" in your ZmDateES2ObjectHandler.REGEX:

ZmDateES2ObjectHandler.REGEX = new RegExp( $RE_NEXT_THIS_LAST + $RE_SP + $RE_DOW + "\\b", "ig");

This works for me. But maybe there is a better solution to this...

Regards
Thomas