I hadn't heard of liblightgrep, nice. It's on my short list for looking more closely. I doubt I'd ever be comfortable with Rust's regex engine growing a depend

I hadn't heard of liblightgrep, nice. It's on my short list for looking more closely. I doubt I'd ever be comfortable with Rust's regex engine growing a dependency on libicu, but it's still worth understanding your implementation. Some questions, if you don't mind. The big one is: does your regex engine use finite automata, and does it put the text decoding into the automaton itself? For example, when you compile the `.` regex, you end up with an automaton that inlines UTF-8 decoding itself. It looks like this: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8fbe170bfcca5d7475b59299fabbd0a3 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8fbe170bfcca5d7475b59299fa... Does you regex library do that for each type of encoding? Or is there a transcoding step?