ntly many resources as to cause your application to lose
performance.
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One way of guarding against this possibility is to use the
<b>pcre_fullinfo()</b> function to check the compiled pattern's options for UTF.
Alternatively, from release 8.33, you can set the PCRE_NEVER_UTF option at
compile time. This causes an compile time error if a pattern contains a
UTF-setting sequence.
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<P>
If your application is one that supports UTF, be aware that validity checking
can take time. If the same data strin