On 1/9/23 11:51, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

        /b:
        155781
        (*UCP)/b:
        46035
        /s:
        0
        (*UCP)/s:
        0
        /w:
        142468
        (*UCP)/w:
        9706

So the output still differs, and some of those differences may or may
not be wanted.

I took a look at the output, and by and large I'd want the differences; that is, I'd want the UCP version, which generates less output. This is because several Emacs source files are not UTF-8, and \b has nonsense matches when searching text files encoded via Shift-JIS or Big 5 or whatever. For this sort of thing, the fewer matches the better.


If all you're doing is matching either ASCII or Japanese text and you
want "locale-aware numbers" it might do the wrong thing.

I'm not seeing much of a problem here. When searching Japanese text, I would expect \d and [0-90-9] (using both ASCII and full-width digits) to be equivalent so (assuming UCP) it's not a big deal as to which regex you use, since Japanese text won't contain Bengali (or whatever) digits. And when searching binary data, I'd expect a bunch of garbage no matter how \d is interpreted.

Here I'm assuming [0-9] (using full-width digits) has the expected meaning in PCRE2, i.e., that PCRE2 didn't make the same mistake that POSIX made.



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