facebookarchive/prepack

Implement full unicode support for regular expressions

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#1,018 opened on Sep 27, 2017

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ES6help wantedinterpreterlevel 4 (hard)test needed

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Description

Sounds a bit tricky, but can probably be done by using the underlying JavaScript VM.

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Study how Prepack currently handles regular expressions. Investigate using the JavaScript VM's 'u' flag for full Unicode support. Propose a plan to integrate it into the optimizer.
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javascript
Domain
tooling
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Feature
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3
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Half day
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Stale
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Clear
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30