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[xsl] Re: [xquery-talk] backticks in regex - tales of the unexpected part II

2014-04-08 12:20:43

On 7 Apr 2014, at 17:07, Ihe Onwuka <ihe(_dot_)onwuka(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

backticks match the \w regex class which does seem at odds with the
definition of that class.


You might call it a backtick, and misuse it as a kind of quotation mark, but 
its proper Unicode name and intended semantics is "grave accent", and the \w 
category includes all non-spacing diacriticals.

Michael Kay
Saxonica


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