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\u in regular expressions

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PCRE uses \x whereas JS regexp uses \u for hexadecimal code sequence.

I think it would be better to support only \u for better compatibility. This could be done at compile-time but would only account for "constant" regexps. Instead you can #define PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT when building PCRE as explained here: https://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrepattern.html#SEC5

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