[Bug: 21.5-b28] Could you please turn on `RE_CHAR_CLASSES' for XEmacs?

[Steve Youngs]

* Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

  > Steve Youngs writes:
  >> We enabled character classes in SXEmacs 22.1.8 (Mule is enable by
  >> default in SXEmacs), so far no related crashes.  Steve, if you can give
  >> me some hairy test cases, I'll be happy to let you know how SXEmacs
  >> stands up to it.

  > Well, on second thought I take the worries about crashes back.  These
  > are just character classes, same as any other.

  > The main question is how the character classes are constructed in Mule.

  > Eg, you would hope that "^[[:word:]]+ [[:word:]]+$" would match
  > "Hrvoje Nikšić" and "^半田 健一$", as well as "Steve Youngs".

Yeah, you'd hope, but unfortunately it fails miserably and only matches
"Steve Youngs".  I guess we need to work on that.

It would be interesting to learn how GNU/Emacs copes with that
situation.  Can somebody with a recent Emacs let me know?

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