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Why does [$\u20AC] match a dollar or euro sign?
Regexp Tutorial - Character Classes or Character Sets
According to that page?
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Posted 18 February 2011 - 07:12 PM
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That's the unicode character.
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Posted 18 February 2011 - 10:41 PM
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The Euro symbol is very hard to ensure representation of in an ASCII-like codepage, so the tutorial defaults to matching the Unicode codepoint of the Euro character, as it was very likely stored as one.
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Posted 19 February 2011 - 04:29 AM
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\u is the escape sequence for a Unicode character. Unicode is a 24-bit character set that allows for a wider range of symbols than ASCII. The Euro sign would be a Unicode character since it's not found in ASCII or (to my knowledge) Extended ASCII, and is evidently represented by \u20AC.
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Posted 19 February 2011 - 05:49 PM
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Unicode is a 24-bit character set
A nice review if it is of interest to you: Comparison of Unicode encodings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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