Re: A thought about regex versus multibyte character sets

Tom Lane wrote:

> I just spent a bit of time considering what we might do to fix this.
> The idea mentioned in the above thread was to switch over to using
> wchar_t in the regex code, but that seems to have a number of problems.
> One showstopper is that on some platforms wchar_t is only 16 bits and
> can't represent the full range of Unicode characters.  I don't want to
> fix case-folding only to break regexes for other uses.

We have a TODO item about having a regex specific data type.  Would
implementing that solve this problem?

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