[Help-smalltalk] [bug] regex doesn't support i (ignorecase) flag

[Paolo Bonzini]

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http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project/issue/85
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Project:      GNU Smalltalk
Version:      <none>
Component:    VM
Category:     bug reports
Priority:     normal
Assigned to:  Unassigned
Reported by:  S11001001
Updated by:   bonzinip
Status:       patch

>    *  Assume ASCII.  regex.c already effectively assumes that strings
> are somewhat ASCII-compatible, and this wouldn't bias in favor of a
> particular ASCII superset.

I believe this is the best.

>    *  Assume Latin-1.  This has the benefit of offering a clear
> behavior path to future support for matching full Unicode strings, so
> it's what the patch uses.

Not really, because UTF-8 is not a superset of Latin-1.  All of eastern
Europe, plus Greece, plus most of Africa/Asia/Australia do not use
Latin-1.

If you don't mind some conflicts, I can adapt the patch you attached. 
Otherwise, you can do the change yourself and I'll cherrypick both
changesets.