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Norbert Lindenberg (2013-10-26T06:42:20.000Z)

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On Oct 25, 2013, at 18:35 , Jason Orendorff <jason.orendorff at gmail.com> wrote:

> UTF-16 is designed so that you can search based on code units
> alone, without computing boundaries. RegExp searches fall in this
> category.

Not if the RegExp is case insensitive, or uses a character class, or ".", or a quantifier - these all require looking at code points rather than UTF-16 code units in order to support the full Unicode character set.

Norbert

domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-10-28T14:50:43.111Z)

On Oct 25, 2013, at 18:35 , Jason Orendorff <jason.orendorff at gmail.com> wrote:

> UTF-16 is designed so that you can search based on code units
> alone, without computing boundaries. RegExp searches fall in this
> category.

Not if the RegExp is case insensitive, or uses a character class, or ".", or a quantifier - these all require looking at code points rather than UTF-16 code units in order to support the full Unicode character set.

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