Re: regex module has dropped support for syntax tables

2022-05-08 Thread Bruno Haible
Reuben Thomas asked: > Also, do the maintainers have any better suggestion for what I should do > than revert to GNU regex 0.12 for a2ps? AFAIU, regex syntax tables assume a 7-bit or 8-bit text encoding. But nearly everyone nowadays uses a multibyte text encoding. So, I think you will need to look

regex module has dropped support for syntax tables

2022-05-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
I am working on GNU a2ps. I have tracked down a test failure to the lack of support for syntax tables in gnulib's regex module (removed by commit 151e40bb39 which switches from GNU regex 0.12 to the glibc version). This took me quite a long time to work out, since syntax tables are still documente