<i18n dev> Fwd: RFR JDK-8013254: Constructor \w need update to add the support of \p{Join_Control}

[Xueming Shen]

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Hi,

It appears we dropped the ball on u+200c and u+200d when we updated
the "simple word boundaries" back to jdk7 [1]. You can find most of the
related discussion here [2]. These 2 code points are listed as one of the
issues we were trying to fix but obviously the final doc and implementation
don't address them. Mainly because the \p{Join_Control} was not explicitly
listed in TR#18 "compatibility" section back then (the earlier version) [3],
though these 2 code points are explicitly mentioned at section RL1.4 Simple
Word Boundaries [4]. The \p{Join_Control} (u+200c and u+200d) has been
added/listed in the "compatibility" section in the latest version of TR#18 [5].

The proposed change here is to
(1) add these two code points back to the collection of \w
(2) list them explicitly into the \w definition as \p{Join_Control}
(3) list Join_Control as one of the supported binary properties.

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/i18n-dev/2011-April/000381.html

The webrev for RegExTest.java above includes the change for 8013252
which is being reviewed as well, I'm not separating them out just for
convenience. The regression/unit tests may not that "direct", here is
a direct version to verify the fix.

         Matcher wordU = Pattern.compile("\\w", Pattern.UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS).matcher("");
         System.out.println(wordU.reset("\u200c").find());
         System.out.println(wordU.reset("\u200d").find());

thanks
-Sherman

[1] http://ccc.us.oracle.com/7039066
[2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/i18n-dev/2011-April/000381.html
[3] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/tr18-13.html#Compatibility_Properties
[4] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/tr18-13.html#Simple_Word_Boundaries
[5] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/#Compatibility_Properties