Doc #64260 [Wfx]: Documentation misleading

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64260&edit=1 ID: 64260 User updated by: adam at acdinternet dot com Reported by: adam at acdinternet dot com Summary: Documentation misleading Status: Wont fix Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: Ubuntu 10.4 PHP Version: 5.3.21 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Yes OK. Further research made me doubt my original assertions. It's never clear from the web regex testers whether they have the PCRE modules installed/enabled, so I need to check it all on my own system. I still think there's some basic ambiguity, which would be helped by a list somewhere of exactly which Unicode character ranges fall within [Common] - and the others. Otherwise it's all down to trial and error? But thanks very much for looking into this. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-27 04:37:10] frozenfire@php.net This seems more like a data source bug than a documentation bug. The text "Those that are not part of an identified script are lumped together as Common." is lifted directly from the pcre manpage (http://pcre.org/pcre.txt). I think that the documentation is intended to be correct in theory, but upstream may have a bug that causes it not to be correct. I would recommend filing a bug upstream, if the issue is one that is likely to cause others problems in the future. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-21 00:48:32] adam at acdinternet dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/regexp.reference.unicode --- This page states "Those that are not part of an identified script are lumped together as Common." That means mutual exclusivity between the list below in the docs and 'Common'. In practise this appears not to be true. The character 'm' is in both 'Common' and 'Ogham' according to http://www.pagecolumn.com/tool/pregtest.htm Evidence.. Try preg pattern: /[\p{Ogham}]/iu with Testing subject moo Then try /[\p{Common}]/iu ..you get results (matches) both times. The documentation is therefore logically incorrect? The character 'o' seems also to be in \p{Tifinagh} This has caused me real problems, so bears correcting if I'm right. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64260&edit=1