Re: regex and case-fold-search problem

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> IMO, it is wrong to handle case-fold-search for regexp ranges by
> trying to modify the interpretation of the regex range.

> Instead, the regex matcher should try to upcase and lowercase each
> character in the string and see if either of these caracters are
> within the given range.

I also reached to that idea.  It makes regexp compiling
simpler and faster but makes regexp matching a little bit
slower.  I don't know if that slowerness is tolerable or
not, but it's worth trying.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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