Re: [pcre-dev] [Bug 1049] Add support for UTF-16

I think this is an excellent idea. If Philip also supports it, I will do this.

Regards,
Zoltan

Ralf Junker <ralfjunker@???> írta:
>On 05.01.2012 08:39, Zoltán Herczeg wrote:>
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>> One detriment to a combined 8+16 library is that it may be too easy>
>> to accidentally mis-code to the wrong 8/16 API and not have that>
>> caught during linkage.>
>>
> That is a strong reason. Ok I will leave it as it is now.>
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Along the same lines, may I suggest to different pcre types, pcre (old)>
and pcre16 (new)?>
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This should allow compilers to detect invalid 8-bit and 16-bit function>
calls like>
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pcre* re;>
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re = pcre16_compile (...); /* 16-bit */>
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pcre_exec (re, ...); /* wrong 8-bit call */>
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Ralf>