Am 08.09.2011 13:30, schrieb Eike Rathke: > Hi Pedro, > > On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 20:32:38 -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > >> > > There is also interest in using icu-regex for >> > > replacing the copyleft regex and the latest >> > > versions seem to have improved a lot. >> > >> > Of course, but upgrading ICU at this stage for a 3.4 >> > release IMHO is not an option. >> > >> Hmm.. the release. >> >> Apart from the SGA, that doesn't really depend on us, >> we need: >> - new regex code (where I thought and ICU upgrade would >> actually help) > > ICU 4.0.1 we use also has regex. Sure, newest ICU probably improved > there, but upgrading ICU in the past gave some surprises, especially > regarding break iterators, that made it necessary to adapt some things. > That should be avoided.
Which version of ICU is used in LibreOffice? If they use a newer one, this probably can tell us about possible "surprises". Regards, Mathias
