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Re: PATCH: PCRE support for embedded NUL characters

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: PCRE support for embedded NUL characters
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:24:59 +0100
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:59:25 -0400
Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anyone have any opinions of what ZPCRE_OP should count?
> 
> It's currently documented as counting bytes, which is certainly
> accurate, but seems not very useful given that you can't index strings
> by byte offsets in zsh (or can you, with some option I've not noticed
> before?)

Ideally, it's bytes with MULTIBYTE unset, and code points with it set,
i.e. what the mb/wc functions consider a "character".

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