Hello,
I am getting a strange result from unit irregex having to do with matching character sets.
I recently upgraded to 4.13.0 to get the bug fix
having to do with an
extra empty list in the SRE:
https://github.com/ashinn/irregex/pull/18. I was happy to find that "[]" bracketed character sets without "^" are working beautifully! I am, however, observing strange things with the "^" exclusion character.
The ⾀ character has three bytes and when displayed in byte form, looks like `\342\276\200`:
INPUT:
(use irregex) ; Not doing (use utf8) because I want start-index and end-index to function correctly
(irregex-match-substring (irregex-search (irregex "[^⾀]" 'utf8) "⾀⾀⾀"))
EXPECTED OUTPUT:
Considering a UTF-8 character as a single character anywhere it appears: `#f`
Considering
a UTF-8 character as a single character sometimes and a byte string
sometimes: `<the first byte of ⾀>` (displayed as `\342`), or #f
Considering a UTF-8 character as a byte string always: #f
OUTPUT:
`<the first byte of ⾀><the second byte of ⾀>` (looks like `\342\276`)
EVEN WORSE:
(irregex-match-substring (irregex-search (irregex "[^Ç]" 'utf8) "Ç")) ---> "Ç" ; A two-byte character
Am I doing something wrong? Is "^" not
designed to be used with multibyte characters? Why would it return two bytes and not 0, 1, or 3?
Thank you!