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		Panzerschrek 42 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Banned C++ features in Chromium <regex> [banned] A good decision. I tried to use it once and realized that it can't even work with UTF-8 properly. It's a mystery for me how such flawed design was standardized at all.

buckle8017 42 days ago [–]

All modern regex libraries have a Unicode mode.

Also regex predates utf8.

Sharlin 42 days ago | [–]

But <regex> definitely does not predate utf-8.

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