Problem with [*] for non English

[kimmanlui]

hi
if I type [*]出国[*]留学 , it is expected to accept 出国留学 or 要出国要留学. Unfortunately, it is not.

My workaround is to have four statements *出国*留学 , 出国留学 , *出国留学 , 出国*留学

It does not look nice.
Thanks,

[kirsle]

This is a known bug, the root cause of which is the \b word-boundary metacharacter in the JavaScript regular expression engine. Python's regexps have the same problem, but other languages can handle it fine.

Other related issues: #147, #253 and aichaos/rivescript-python#78

My best idea for a future workaround is to allow users to write raw regular expressions in RiveScript for these cases instead of the standard "simplified regexps" of the +Trigger. The discussion about that is over at aichaos/rivescript-wd#6.