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Re: Unicode regex negated case-insensitivity in 5.14.0-RC1

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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
April 30, 2011 16:31
Subject:
Re: Unicode regex negated case-insensitivity in 5.14.0-RC1
Message ID:
21264.1304206286@chthon
> Precisely.  So those examples would not be broken.  Only bracketed 
> character classes in regular expressions.  You said a couple days ago 
> that "I have always been bugged by the idea that a bracketed character 
> class could ever match more than a single code point.  It's like /./ 
> suddenly matching more than one, but you're not in grapheme mode. 
> Character classes seem to be inherent singletons."  So it appeared that 
> you agreed with me.
 
I do.  (I think.)

--tom
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