On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Sheri wrote: > Philip, > > Would you consider adding another inline beginning of pattern option, > this one for turning on UTF8? > > Perhaps (*UTF8) ?
Two problems here. First is one of style. The (*xxx) things are all to do with backtracking, not options. Perl describes them as "verbs". The options are all (?x) things. Second problem is that the (?x) things can have limited scope (e.g. inside parens). Without far more work than I am prepared to contemplate, I don't belive that compiling a pattern partly with UTF8 on and partly with it off would be feasible (or sensible). I suppose one could insist that it be present only at top-level and give an error if it appeared at a lower level. I will take a look at (?8) perhaps. But maybe not for the forthcoming release (depending on how difficult it actually is). Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
