bug#18454: Improve performance when -P (PCRE) is used in UTF-8 locales

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2014-12-20 10:31:46 +0900, Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:00:38 +0900
> Norihiro Tanaka <address@hidden> wrote:
> $ printf "\xED\xA0\xBF\n" | LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 src/grep -G .
> Binary file (standard input) matches
> $ printf "\xED\xA0\xBF\n" | LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 src/grep -P .
> $
> 
> regex also behaves same as grep -G, e.g. sed only using regex returns the
> line.  Therefore, I think that what a character in the surrogate area
> matches a period with grep -G is not a bug, although the behavior might
> not obey a standard.
> 
> $ printf "\xED\xA0\xBF\n" | LANG=en_US.utf8 sed -ne '/./p'
> 
> By the way, mbrlen() returns (size_t) -1 for the character.

IMHO, both grep and sed should be fixed to obey RFC 3629, which
specifies UTF-8. And other tools too (iconv...).

> OTOH, if a character in the surrogate area does not match a period in
> PCRE, I think that the character should not also match a period grep -P.

I agree.

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