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Re: character classes & regular expressions

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In comp.unix.shell Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> writes:
>>>>>> In comp.unix.shell Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> writes:
>>>>>> On 2012-05-04, Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>        [Cross-posting into news:alt.conspiracy.microsoft, as a possible
>        aid for kill-filing.]
> 
> [...]
> 
> >>>> How do you specify a "single character, either an upper-case
> >>>> letter or a digit" within such a regular expression, then?
> 
> >>> [A-Z0-9]
> >>> [A-Z\d]
> 
> >> It happens that the native languages of the most people of the world
> >> either use extensions to the Latin script (beyond those in ASCII,
> >> such as J or W), or use a script not derived from Latin at all.
> >> (Greek-based scripts are not uncommon, for instance; FWIW, the Latin
> >> script is based on the Greek one itself.)
> 
> >> Good luck selling your product to anyone speaking French, Greek,
> >> Polish or Russian.
> 
> > like greeks have money to buy software or a russian has ever made a
> > legit software purchase.
> 
>        There were the rumors that Sberbank is the largest partner of
>        Microsoft in Europe.  (Perhaps [1] may shed some light on this.)
> 
>        And not to mention all those gamers on Steam.
> 
>        One may sell services based on software just as well, BTW.
> 
> [1] http://download.microsoft.com/documents/customerevidence/6062_Sberbank.doc

So 10 years ago, one bank in russia may have had some legit microsoft 
licenses. This alone is actually impressive.

Everything else is russia is still pirated.

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character classes & regular expressions Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-05-05 09:35 +0700
  Re: character classes & regular expressions Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-05-05 02:42 +0000
    Re: character classes & regular expressions Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-05-05 10:00 +0700
  Re: character classes & regular expressions Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2012-05-06 02:31 +0000
    Re: character classes & regular expressions Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-05-06 12:15 +0700
      Re: character classes & regular expressions Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2012-05-06 07:47 +0000
        copyright in Russia Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-05-10 19:28 +0700

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