Well, I started (that's why I rearranged the regexp module so that one can add Regexp.PCRE) but I didn't get my configure tests to work, so I didn't finish adding PCRE. Wide string support is there, sort of, if you use the utf-8 API, as you suggested. I don't have a good opinion yet if the configure should refuse to recognize PCRE without utf-8 support as a valid PCRE lib (as I said I never got this far).
It would also be good if someone more experienced took a look at the current regexp engine and made it null-safe.
/ Martin Nilsson (saturator)
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2003-09-19 03:45: Subject: Adding PCRE to Pike
Open question: What problems are there to add PCRE to Pike?
Sure it'd be nice to have a regexp package that groks wide strings but since Regexp isn't better in that regard there's nothing to lose.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS