mudasobwa
Regex punctuation matchers
AFAIU, Elixir delegates regular expression evaluation to Erlang.
Erlang claims to support Unicode general category matchers.
“ is declared in Unicode spec as LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK under General punctuation. Both Ruby and Perl do recognize this symbol as opening punctuation:
[0x201C].pack('U*').match /\p{Pi}/
#⇒ #<MatchData "“">
Both Elixir and Erlang, unfortunately, do not:
Regex.scan(~r/[\p{Pi}\p{Pf}\p{Ps}\p{Pe}]/, "'\"“”‘’«»")
#⇒ [[<<171>>], [<<187>>]] # these are « and »
What am I missing and/or what should I tune to make the regex engine to work properly?
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NobbZ
You forgot to enable unicode mode:
iex(1)> Regex.scan(~r/[\p{Pi}\p{Pf}\p{Ps}\p{Pe}]/, "'\"“”‘’«»")
[[<<171>>], [<<187>>]]
iex(2)> Regex.scan(~r/[\p{Pi}\p{Pf}\p{Ps}\p{Pe}]/u, "'\"“”‘’«»")
[["“"], ["”"], ["‘"], ["’"], ["«"], ["»"]]
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mudasobwa
Fair enough.
This is a matter of personal preference and I cordially avoid wasting core team time with such requests 
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