notepad-plus-plus / notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus
Regex \p{L} finds only English letters
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Description
A search for the regular expression \p{L} should find any Unicode LETTER character.
In Notepad++ it only finds the letters in the Basic Latin block.
So, e.g., it does not match \xE6 - Latin Small Letter æ in the Latin-1 Supplement block,
let alone any letters in non-Roman scripts.
If this syntax is supported at all, it should meet the full documented definition.
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First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing a search for \p{L} using æ and a letter from a non-Roman script, then inspect the regular-expression search implementation. Compare the observed matches with the documented Unicode LETTER definition. Done means \p{L} matches letters beyond the Basic Latin block.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100