[Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

Stephen Kelly stephen.kelly at kdab.com
Mon Nov 21 15:53:05 CET 2011


On Friday, November 11, 2011 13:01:55 Zoltán Herczeg wrote:
> Hi Qt Devs,
> 
> I am Zoltan Herczeg, a PCRE and a QtWebKit developer. Stephen Kelly told me
> that Qt would like to replace the QRegExp engine with another regex engine
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.qt5-feedback/1524/), and he
> _really_ encouraged me to tell you that we consider adding UTF16 support in
> PCRE (http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049). This is a longer-term
> plan which is only at the planning phase now, however, and only worth
> something if someone would use it. Do Qt interested in an wchar/UTF16 based
> PCRE?
> 
> Regards,
> Zoltan

Thanks Zoltán for sending this. I'm back from vacation, so I'll see if this 
can get pushed along on the Qt requirements side and if it is possible for Qt5 
to use PCRE.

Thanks,

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