[Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 11/25/11 5:03 AM, "ext Giuseppe D'Angelo" <dangelog at gmail.com> wrote:

>2011/11/23 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
>> Question: where does it get its Unicode tables from? Are they compiled
>>in, or
>> does it link to another library, such as ICU?
>>
>> Here, my libpcre links to nothing but libc.
>
>Same here. They're internal tables, f.i. pcre_ucd.c
>http://vcs.pcre.org/viewvc/code/trunk/pcre_ucd.c?revision=592&view=markup
>
>Since they're used for Unicode case insensitive matching (as well as
>Unicode properties) we can't avoid paying for their size...

Yay. That's probably the 5th table encoding (the same) Unicode properties
in the stack. And all of them might base their data on different Unicode
versions.

Cheers,
Lars