From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] grep: correctly identify utf-8 characters with \{b,w} in -P
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:06:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <230119.86cz7bwign.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7cxj6chn.fsf@gitster.g>
On Wed, Jan 18 2023, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> GNU grep -P has no knob and would likely never have one.
>>
>> I think the general knob in not just GNU grep but GNU utils and the
>> wider *nix landscape is "tweak your LC_ALL and/or other locale
>> varibales".
>>
>> Which works for it, and will work for us once we're using PCRE2_UCP too.
>>
>>> So for now, I think we should acknowledge the bug, provide an option
>>> for people that might need the fix, and fix all other problems we
>>> have, which will include changes in PCRE2 as well to better fit our
>>> use case.
>>
>> Hrm, what are those PCRE2 changes? The one I saw so far (or was it a
>> proposal) was to just make its "grep" utility use the PCRE2_UCP like GNU
>> grep is now doing in its unreleased version in its git repo...
>
> Yeah, I didn't understand Carlo's comment in that paragraph at all.
>
> In short, it sounds to me that the earlier one that added PCRE2_UCP
> unconditionally would be the best alternative among those that have
> been discussed.
I agree.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-18 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-08 6:23 [PATCH] grep: correctly identify utf-8 characters with \{b,w} in -P Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2023-01-08 6:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-08 15:52 ` [PATCH v2] " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2023-01-09 11:35 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-01-09 18:40 ` bug#60690: [PATCH v2] grep: correctly identify utf-8 characters with \{b, w} " Paul Eggert
2023-01-09 19:51 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-01-09 23:12 ` Paul Eggert
2023-01-10 4:49 ` [PATCH v2] grep: correctly identify utf-8 characters with \{b,w} " Carlo Arenas
2023-01-16 20:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-03 21:38 ` -P '\d' in GNU and git grep Paul Eggert
2023-04-04 3:30 ` bug#60690: " Jim Meyering
2023-04-04 6:46 ` Paul Eggert
2023-04-04 15:31 ` Jim Meyering
2023-04-04 6:56 ` Carlo Arenas
2023-04-04 18:25 ` bug#60690: " Paul Eggert
2023-04-04 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-05 18:32 ` Paul Eggert
2023-04-05 19:04 ` Paul Eggert
2023-04-05 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-05 19:40 ` Jim Meyering
2023-04-05 20:03 ` Paul Eggert
2023-04-05 21:20 ` Carlo Arenas
2023-04-06 15:45 ` demerphq
2023-04-07 16:48 ` Paul Eggert
2023-04-06 13:39 ` demerphq
2023-04-07 19:00 ` Paul Eggert
2023-04-08 5:01 ` Carlo Arenas
2023-04-08 22:45 ` Paul Eggert
2023-01-17 10:51 ` [PATCH v3] grep: correctly identify utf-8 characters with \{b,w} in -P Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2023-01-17 12:38 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-01-17 15:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-18 7:35 ` Carlo Arenas
2023-01-18 11:49 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-01-18 16:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-18 23:06 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2023-01-18 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
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