regex doesnt work for UTF8

I’m trying some chinese inputs, and the [*] format doesn’t seem to behave

    + [*] 你好 [*]
    - wrapping 你好

so as you can see using normal western code ww on the sides of the chinese characters is OK, but the [*] isn’t matching if using chinese characters, with or without a space. I also tried the rive pattern without spaces, ie

+ [*]你好[*]

although i’m not sure what the best practice is here.

FWIW normal * is matching OK:

    + 你好
    - 你－》你好<get nickname>

    + 你好 *
    - 你－》<star>

    + [*] 你好 [*]
    - wrapping 你好

[kirsle]

@dcsan I think I may just have to add that feature. What I’ve learned from porting RiveScript to 5 different languages is that A) Unicode is hard, and B) regular expression engines aren’t all created equally. Things that work in regexps in one language don’t work in another, and it’s hard to make RiveScript support all kinds of Unicode across all versions; so allowing the end user to write a literal regular expression can enable them to fix their specific issues their own way, and avoids all the ‘magic’ that triggerRegexp() does that might interfere with their attempt to get a working regexp out of it.

RiveScript’s predecessor supported a regexp command: everything old is new again.

[kirsle]

Closing this issue in favor of tracking the ~Regexp feature in https://github.com/aichaos/rivescript-wd/issues/6