Alex Shinn scripsit:

> Normalization was in the early issues and dismissed because of lack
> of implementation support and unclear costs in new implementations.
> I think good recommended practice for now is to just normalize both
> inputs and patterns separately.

Okay, I can live with that.  But normalizing an SRE is not a matter of
normalizing the strings in the SRE: indeed, that will break it.  So at
the very least I think a normalize-sre procedure must be provided that
takes an SRE and does the nitty-gritty of selectively expanding charsets
into disjunctions of sequences.  That would not be incompatible
with PCRE, because its effect is global.

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