Just a reminder: even now regex only _attempts_ to load unicode plugin. If it fails, no problem, it just never looks for a unicode handle in pattern, subject, or replacement string. So not sure I see advantage of not attempting to find unicode plugin.
If you want it not t, I'll put it under control of an config ini file setting. --- In [email protected], "Sheri" <sheri...@...> wrote: > BTW, would it be feasible to remove auto-loading of unicode from regex > plugin? Instead of giving a unicode handle as subject (for > regex.pcre_functions), it is straightforward to use unicode.to_utf8(handle) > instead. The possibility to use the actual handle was never documented, so I > highly doubt anyone is using that feature. Even if the feature is retained, > the user would obviously need to use the unicode plugin (and thereby load it > him or herself) in order to create the unicode handle/string wanted for use > as a regex subject.
