keywords: regex perl unicode java i18n
text: Java, Open Source, Regex, and Conformance \\The other day Tim Bray wrote up an interesting piece on java.util.regex.\\I sent him off a quick email detailing my past experiences  and he just\blogged his feedback .\\"Well... yeah, but here's a story. I was kind of surprised at the results on my\OS X box, so I took the code and data over to a nearby Windows XP box and got\similar results, so I took 'em to a Debian-stable box I had handy and once\again, about the same story. "\\"Only, not quite the same. Because it was Perl 5.8.1 on one box and 5.8.3 on\another and 5.6.1 on the third, and the i18n/regex code was slightly different\in each version, and no two of them gave quite the same results. "\\"Now, I'll grant that Unicode/i18n is one ...\\