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.