I followed this thread advice (as I said above) and uploaded the module converted into UTF-8. The good news is that so far, all reports in both 5.10.0 and 5.8.8 have passed.

Bad news is that if you repeat your test but backwards, $latin =~ /utf8/, it also fails:

for my $chr (160 .. 255) {
    my $chr_byte = chr($chr);
    my $chr_utf8 = chr($chr); utf8::upgrade($chr_utf8);
    my $rx = qr{uci$chr_utf8|uci_};
    my $s  =   "uci$chr_byte";
    print $chr . " " . ($s =~ $rx ? "ok" : "not ok") . "\n";
}

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Now that the module is UTF-8, I copied the test suite list of words into latin 1. As suggested by the test above, the new test suite fails. It fails for the same 15 words.

So, is ${^RE_TRIE_MAXBUF} = -1; the most general work-around? What implications does it have? What other options do I have?

Thank you for your kind help.

In reply to Re^3: RegExp breaks in Perl 5.10 by jfraire
in thread RegExp breaks in Perl 5.10 by jfraire

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