Regexp: support for case-insensitive unicode matching

[balajirrao]

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[rbri]

@balajirrao any plans for finishing this? Waiting for that to makt the separate engine pr...

[balajirrao]

@rbri I thought I was going to finish it and then I hit a wall. I believe that in order to do this in the general case, we'd need icu4j. I'm considering creating a module outside of rhino, say, rhino-icu4j that when included would offer complete Unicode support in regexps and possibly in other cases too. How does that sound ?

[andreabergia]

@rbri I thought I was going to finish it and then I hit a wall. I believe that in order to do this in the general case, we'd need icu4j. I'm considering creating a module outside of rhino, say, rhino-icu4j that when included would offer complete Unicode support in regexps and possibly in other cases too. How does that sound ?

IMHO that's the right approach. An opt-in module that, if present, adds the capability. If not, we can error out with "not supported". It would be a good improvement on what we do now.

[aardvark179]

I'm not sure the complement classes present an insurmountable wall. icu4j would certainly offer a route to a complete implementation, but it would also be entirely reasonable to calculate classes, and their complements, when needed. Looping from 0 to MAX_CODE_POINT and building a range structure doesn't actually take much time, and most unicode classes have ranges that can be represented pretty compactly.