   Using non English Characters in a Flex scanner
  Is there a simple hack which enables the use of non English characters in a Flex Scanner? (only for maintaining "strings"...):)   
  For some obscure micro-optimization reason, Unicode support tends to be flaky in most parser generators.It would appear that there exists ALex and AYacc which does support more than ASCII. It's likely there are others.It's been a very long time since I dabbled with parsing, but I remember hacking something myself to work around it and I think I finally abandoned the tools and just went with manually constructed parser.   ;  I've used  quex as a lexer. It has pretty good Unicode support including Unicode character classes.edit: spelling[Edited by - SiCrane on August 30, 2010 7:00:56 AM];  Thanks guys for the info and inspiration. I started a couple of days ago building my own scanner.Trying to figure out how to improve speed with "(Inline assembly)?(SIMD)?(OpenMP)?$" I think i will drop Bison in favor of a hand written parser as well...(And a credit goes to Phresnel too ) :)This is the best site ever! ~(\'0'\)~ ... ~>   