Re: [pcre-dev] BACKREFERENCE with (PCRE_UTF8|PCRE_CASELESS) …

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Author: Philip Hazel
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Old-Topics: Re: [pcre-dev] BACKREFERENCE with (PCRE_UTF8|PCRE_CASELESS) is a unexpected result
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] BACKREFERENCE with (PCRE_UTF8|PCRE_CASELESS) is a unexpected result
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Philip Hazel wrote:

> I have now looked at the code. It is clear that the caseless option
> applies only to ASCII characters in backreferences. There is no
> provision for non-ASCII. I do not know (cannot remember) why it is like
> this. I think this is probably a bug in PCRE, and I have made a note
> that it should be fixed. Unfortunately, there has just been a new
> release (7.7) so there won't be another for a while. (Also because I am
> going to be away.)


I have now fixed the bug and committed a patch so it will be mended in
the next release.

Regards,
Philip

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Philip Hazel