Re: More character matching bits

[Simon Cozens]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:41:40PM -0700, Hong Zhang wrote:
> We should let external collator to handle all these fancy features.

Phew, I've been saying this all along. :)

> Please note regex is O(n) at best, adding an external collator
> will make is O(2n).

While this is very true, I think converting to normalization form C
is something that users can *reasonably* expect from us.

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