The issue is in CentOS 5. I ran the application successfully in Ubuntu 8.04. PCRE in CentOS does not have "unicode properties" enabled. Please see pcretest -C outputs from CentOS and Ubuntu CentOS 5 ======= [ashee at foobar]$ pcretest -C PCRE version 6.6 06-Feb-2006 Compiled with UTF-8 support No Unicode properties support Newline character is LF Internal link size = 2 POSIX malloc threshold = 10 Default match limit = 10000000 Default recursion depth limit = 10000000 Match recursion uses stack Ubuntu ===== ashee at ubuntu:~$ pcretest -C PCRE version 7.4 2007-09-21 Compiled with UTF-8 support Unicode properties support Newline sequence is LF \R matches all Unicode newlines Internal link size = 2 POSIX malloc threshold = 10 Default match limit = 10000000 Default recursion depth limit = 10000000 Match recursion uses stack Is there a way to enable these options (without the usual ./configure make)? -Amitava On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de<ra%2Bcentos at br-online.de>> wrote: > Amitava Shee wrote: > > Yes, building from source will work. I just want to know if there is a > > package (in some yum repository) somewhere so that updates, patches etc. > > gets applied with "yum update". It would be nice to do something like > > > > yum install pcre-utf8 > > Again - and I'm going to type this very slowly: The supplied pcre which > is *IN* CentOS *IS* built with UTF-8 support. > > And: Your problem has *nothing* to do with pcre, your problem lies > *within* the iconv library. > > Ralph > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080709/b4f655ee/attachment-0003.html>