\X [4] Match Unicode "eXtended grapheme cluster"

Hm. So let me see if I have this right.

  1. Because the OP mentioned the word "characters" -- even though he didn't mention unicode (Oops. PST) Unicode -- you are saying that we can no longer use the regex metachar '.', because we don't know that it won't be Unicode, and we therefore run the risk of splitting an "eXtended grapheme cluster".
  2. Which in turn implies that we should never use the '.' metachar.
  3. Which of course begs(PST) leads to the questions:

    Why have '.' if you must always use \X instead?

    Why not simply replace the '.' semantics with the \X semantics and have done with it.

I suspect the reason is PST, but I'll keep an open mind.

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In reply to Re^11: Truncating after the last period by BrowserUk
in thread Truncating after the last period by sdyates

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