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Stacked on #7182, which is what gives core the case tables. The first five commits below are that PR's; the two this PR is about are unicase.c: keep one Unicode case table rather than two and mruby-regexp: name the case option for what carries it.

mruby-regexp carries the simple case foldings for /i, and mruby/mruby#7182 gives core the full ones for String#casecmp? and the four conversions. Those are the same 1,483 sources: the full folding of a character either spells one character, which is what /i wants, or spells several, which /i leaves alone. A build with the option on would pay for both tables and could disagree with itself about a folding if one were regenerated and the other were not.

One table

The tables and the walks over them move into src/unicase.c, which knows about codepoints and nothing about strings or patterns. string.c asks it for a mapping, mruby-regexp asks it for a folding, and re_casefold.h is gone.

Simple folding is the two run tables read in order, the folding difference first and the lowercase mapping under it. U+1E9E folds to "ss" fully and pairs with U+00DF simply, and each reader finds its own answer without a second table.

tools/gen_casefold.rb no longer generates a folding, so it is tools/gen_cased.rb: what it writes is re_cased.h, the codepoints a build without the option refuses under /i. It still reads the whole of the folding data, since what has to be refused is defined by what the other build folds.

One name

MRB_REGEXP_UNICODE_CASE named an option that carried a table of its own inside the gem. The table is core's now and what the option turns on is the two walks over it that /i needs, which sit in core beside the table, so the define is MRB_UNICODE_CASE and has an entry in mrbconf.md where the gem-local name had none.

The option answers where the build reads characters and nowhere else: without MRB_UTF8_STRING there is no table under the walks, and a pattern read as bytes has no character to fold in the first place.

Nothing a build answers changes. The same builds fold the same characters, and the refusal a build without the option raises is the same one with the name in its message updated.

Size

Measured on ci/gcc-clang, .text of libmruby.a against mruby/mruby#7182:

build
full-debug (option on) -1,511
bintest +28
cxx_abi +28
byte-string +64

The 1,511 is the 2,460-byte table that was in the gem, less the walks moving into core. The builds without the option carry none of those walks, because they are compiled only where the option asks for them: unicase.o is linked into every build that reads characters, so leaving them ungated would have cost those builds 4,362 bytes of code nothing calls. What those builds do move by is the code around the table settling differently once string.c hands the walks over, tens of bytes either way.

The 64 on byte-string is two objects and no new code. unicase.o arrives and compiles to nothing there, so the 80 bytes size counts for it are its .note.gnu.property, the only section in it the linker allocates; re_compile.o gives 16 back, which is the refusal message naming the shorter spelling.

Verified

MRUBY_CONFIG=ci/gcc-clang rake -m test from a clean build directory, all four builds and the bintests, KO 0, Crash 0 and Warning 0 on both commits. The clean build matters: a stale object file kept the deleted header's table and its tests passed on the old code.

Simple folding was checked against the table it replaces over every codepoint from 0x80 to 0x10FFFF, all 1,483 sources of the old table included. The two agree everywhere.

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  • New Features

    • Added Unicode-aware case conversion for UTF-8 strings, including lowercasing, uppercasing, capitalization, swapcase, and case folding.
    • Enhanced String#casecmp? and String#swapcase with Unicode and multi-character mappings.
    • Added optional Unicode-aware, case-insensitive regular expressions through MRB_UNICODE_CASE.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid UTF-8 input now raises clear errors during Unicode case conversion and comparison.
    • Byte-oriented strings retain their original bytes and encoding during case operations.
  • Documentation

    • Updated configuration, string, regular expression, and limitation guides for Unicode case behavior and build requirements.

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The PR adds generated Unicode case tables and shared folding APIs. UTF-8 string methods and regexp /i handling use the new infrastructure. Configuration names, documentation, amalgamation order, and tests are updated.

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Unicode case tables and runtime APIs
include/mruby/internal.h, tools/gen_unicase.rb, src/unicase.*, lib/mruby/amalgam.rb
Adds generated Unicode 17.0.0 mappings, packed-table generation, codepoint conversion, folding, unfolding, and range traversal APIs.
UTF-8 string case conversion
src/string.c, mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/src/string.c, test/t/string.rb, mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/test/string.rb, mrbgems/mruby-encoding/test/string.rb, doc/guides/*, doc/limitations.md
UTF-8 strings use Unicode case mappings, including length-changing mappings. Binary strings retain byte-oriented behavior. Malformed UTF-8 raises ArgumentError. casecmp? uses Unicode folding.
Regexp Unicode folding
mrbgems/mruby-regexp/include/*, mrbgems/mruby-regexp/src/*, mrbgems/mruby-regexp/tools/gen_cased.rb, mrbgems/mruby-regexp/test/*, mrbgems/mruby-regexp/README.md, build_config/ci/gcc-clang.rb
Regexp folding uses MRB_UNICODE_CASE with MRB_UTF8_STRING and delegates to shared core folding APIs. The former regexp-specific folding table and APIs are removed.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8df59

The change consolidates Unicode case handling and renames the build option, but the current test selection can exercise the wrong expectations when Unicode case support is enabled without UTF-8 strings, potentially allowing incorrect behavior to pass or rejecting valid behavior. Documentation also omits the binary-string exception, so merge should wait for the test-selection issue to be resolved or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant StringAPI
  participant CaseConverter
  participant UnicodeTables
  Caller->>StringAPI: call downcase, upcase, capitalize, or swapcase
  StringAPI->>CaseConverter: convert UTF-8 string
  CaseConverter->>UnicodeTables: map codepoints
  UnicodeTables-->>CaseConverter: Unicode mappings
  CaseConverter-->>StringAPI: updated string or conversion error
  StringAPI-->>Caller: result
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  • mruby/mruby#7058: Earlier regexp Unicode case-folding implementation replaced by shared core infrastructure.
  • mruby/mruby#7158: Related to string encoding and coderange handling in src/string.c.
  • mruby/mruby#7182: Directly overlaps the Unicode string case-conversion APIs, tables, and tests.

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Match the test selection to the code guard.

re_internal.h defines RE_UNICODE_CASE only when MRB_UNICODE_CASE and MRB_UTF8_STRING are both defined. This condition checks MRB_UNICODE_CASE alone. A build that sets MRB_UNICODE_CASE without MRB_UTF8_STRING compiles the refusal path, but the suite then runs test/unicode_case.rb and drops test/ascii_case.rb, so the two test files assert the opposite of the built behavior. No CI build currently uses that pair, so this is a latent misconfiguration.

Test the same pair the code tests.

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   spec.build_settings do
-    if build.has_define?('MRB_UNICODE_CASE')
+    # Same pair as RE_UNICODE_CASE in include/re_internal.h: the Unicode
+    # foldings are core's table, which only a UTF-8 build carries.
+    if build.has_define?('MRB_UNICODE_CASE') && build.has_define?('MRB_UTF8_STRING')
       spec.test_rbfiles -= ["#{spec.dir}/test/ascii_case.rb"]
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In `@mrbgems/mruby-regexp/mrbgem.rake` around lines 45 - 51, Update the condition
in the spec.build_settings test-selection block to require both MRB_UNICODE_CASE
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In `@doc/guides/mrbconf.md`:
- Around line 218-223: Update the case-conversion documentation to distinguish
non-binary UTF-8 strings from binary strings: in doc/guides/mrbconf.md lines
218-223, limit Unicode mappings and invalid-character ArgumentError behavior to
non-binary UTF-8 strings; in doc/limitations.md lines 282-283, state that binary
strings retain byte-oriented ASCII conversion; in
mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/README.md lines 337 and 812-819, apply the same
non-binary UTF-8 scope to Unicode swapcase behavior and invalid-string
ArgumentError behavior.

In `@mrbgems/mruby-regexp/tools/gen_cased.rb`:
- Line 95: Update the emitted comment in the generator near the existing
MRB_UTF8_STRING text to match the committed re_cased.h wording, referring to
MRB_UNICODE_CASE and the RE_UNICODE_CASE condition. Ensure regeneration
preserves the header’s current comment and accurately reflects that either
required define being absent causes the refusal.

In `@src/string.c`:
- Around line 2397-2399: Correct the ASCII examples in the comments for the
downcase and upcase documentation: at src/string.c lines 2397-2399, change the
byte-mode downcase example to map 'A' to 'a'; at src/string.c lines 3580-3583,
change the byte-mode upcase example to map 'a' to 'A'. No code behavior changes
are needed.

In `@tools/gen_unicase.rb`:
- Line 153: Update the widest-byte calculation near the existing lower, upper,
title, and fold aggregation to include all values from swap_diff as well. Also
correct the generated comment near the table-count message so it refers to five
tables instead of three.
- Line 157: Update the hex method definition to use Ruby 2.5-compatible standard
method syntax with an explicit body, while preserving its existing hexadecimal
formatting behavior.

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- Around line 45-51: Update the condition in the spec.build_settings
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matching the RE_UNICODE_CASE guard in re_internal.h; keep the existing removal
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The finding outside the diff range, on mrbgems/mruby-regexp/mrbgem.rake, is right and is fixed. It is worth saying where it came from, since it is not a pre-existing latency: this PR introduced it.

On master the guard and the test selection agreed. MRB_REGEXP_UNICODE_CASE alone was what the code compiled against, and mrbgem.rake asked for that one define. The first commit here introduces RE_UNICODE_CASE as the pair MRB_REGEXP_UNICODE_CASE && MRB_UTF8_STRING, because the foldings became core's table and only a build reading characters carries it — and it left mrbgem.rake asking about one of the two. So the first commit is where the two part company, and it is where the fix goes.

No build in CI sets either define without the other, so nothing that runs today changes: full-debug turns the option on and keeps mruby-encoding, and the other three take neither branch differently. What it buys is that a build which did set the option without MRB_UTF8_STRING would no longer compile the refusal and then run the test file asserting the opposite.

The description's size table is remeasured on the pushed branch, and the byte-string row is now itemised: unicase.o arrives and compiles to no code, so the 80 bytes size counts for it are its .note.gnu.property, and re_compile.o gives 16 back for the shorter spelling in the refusal message — the 16 the second commit's message claims, confirmed per object.

Every commit was built clean and tested, four builds and the bintests, KO 0, Crash 0 and Warning 0.

`String#downcase`, `#upcase` and `#capitalize` walked the bytes and folded
'A' to 'Z'. A build that reads a string as characters knows perfectly well
that `"ÄÖÜ"` holds three characters, and still answered `"ÄÖÜ"` for their
lower case. That is not a narrower answer than CRuby's, it is a wrong one:
the string has a lower case and the method said it does not.

Carry the Unicode mappings in core, behind `MRB_UTF8_STRING`, and have the
three methods walk the characters of a string that holds any:

```ruby
"ÄÖÜ".downcase    #=> "äöü"
"ß".upcase        #=> "SS"
"dzabc".capitalize #=> "Dzabc"
```

The mappings are the full ones, so a character can map to several ("ß" to
"SS", "fi" to "FI") and the byte count moves either way: U+212A is three bytes
and lower cases to the one of "k". The conversion is therefore built beside
the string and takes its place at the end, rather than being written over it.

Each method keeps the ASCII loop it had, and reaches the walk over characters
only where the string holds one. A string of nothing but ASCII, and one read
as bytes, hold no character the tables speak about, so a build that reads
bytes answers what it always did and costs what it always cost.

### The tables

`tools/gen_unicase.rb` generates `src/unicase.h` from the data the host CRuby
carries. Title case is stored as its difference from upper case, 28 runs
against the 195 it would take in full, and the difference has to be able to
say "this one does not change" as well: `U+10D0` upper cases to `U+1C90` and
title cases to itself, which a run of delta 0 stands for.

A run is packed into six bytes rather than spelled as a struct of four
fields, which costs twelve to the same effect. The fields are a 21-bit source,
a 7-bit count, one bit of stride and a 17-bit delta, and over half of what the
struct spends is padding around a codepoint sitting in a 32-bit field. A multi
character entry is five bytes the same way.

### Size

A character indexed build grows by 6,352 bytes: 2,286 for the upper and lower
case runs, 630 for the multi character entries and 408 for the pool they spell
themselves in, 168 for the title case runs and 115 for its multi, 120 for the
three table descriptors, and 1,694 for the lookups and the walk.

A byte indexed build is unchanged, byte for byte.

### Verified

`MRUBY_CONFIG=ci/gcc-clang rake -m test`, all four builds and the bintests,
KO 0, Crash 0 and Warning 0. Every answer asserted in the new tests was read
off CRuby 4.0.6 first, including the ones that look like bugs: `"ΣΟΦΟΣ"
.downcase` ends in "σ" rather than "ς" there too, since word final sigma is a
mapping that reads its neighbours and neither applies it.
`String#swapcase` walked the bytes and swapped 'A' to 'Z' against 'a' to 'z',
so a build that reads a string as characters answered `"Äö"` for the swap of
`"Äö"`. The three methods in core stopped doing that; this is the fourth.

Reach the walk in core from here rather than carrying a second one:
`mrb_str_case_convert_unicode()` takes what to do as a mode, so the tables are
asked about in one place and swapping is one more mode of the four.

```ruby
"Äö".swapcase   #=> "äÖ"
"ßA".swapcase   #=> "SSa"
```

Swapping is stored as its difference from a rule, the way title case is
stored as its difference from upper case: a character with a lower case is an
upper case one and swaps down, one without swaps up. The rule is right about
every character but 31, all of them title case ones, which CRuby swaps to
something neither of their cases spells. `U+01C5` upper cases to `U+01C4` and
lower cases to `U+01C6`, and swaps to "dŽ". Those 31 are the whole of the
`swap` table.

The ASCII loop this method had stays where it is and answers for a string of
nothing but ASCII as it always has, so a byte indexed build is unchanged, byte
for byte.

### Size

A character indexed build grows by 648 bytes: 155 for the 31 entries, 141 for
the pool they spell themselves in, 24 for the table descriptor, and the rest
for the mode reaching the walk and the rule it falls back on.

### Verified

`MRUBY_CONFIG=ci/gcc-clang rake -m test`, all four builds and the bintests,
KO 0, Crash 0 and Warning 0. Every answer asserted was read off CRuby 4.0.6
first.
`casecmp?` was `casecmp(other) == 0`, and `casecmp` orders strings by ASCII
case, so `"ä".casecmp?("Ä")` was false. CRuby answers the two apart: `casecmp`
is ASCII there too and says 1, while `casecmp?` folds and says true.

Folding is a third thing beside upper and lower case, not a spelling of
either: it maps "ß" to "ss" so that the two compare equal, which is nobody's
lower case. Carry it in `unicase.h` beside the others and reach it as a mode
of the same walk.

```ruby
"ä".casecmp("Ä")    #=> 1
"ä".casecmp?("Ä")   #=> true
"ß".casecmp?("ss")  #=> true
"fi".casecmp?("fi")  #=> true
```

Both sides are folded and compared whole rather than character against
character, since a folding can spell one character as several and the two
strings then hold different numbers of them. Only one of them has to hold a
character above ASCII for both to be folded: `"ß".casecmp?("SS")` is true, and
the walk over characters hands a string of nothing but ASCII back untouched,
so that side is folded here instead.

Folding is stored as its difference from the lowercase mapping, the way title
case is stored as its difference from upper case. The two answer alike for all
but 108 sources, so the difference is 24 runs where a table of its own would
take 198, and the 114 sources the lowercase mapping has that folding leaves
alone are its runs of delta 0.

A comparison with nothing above ASCII on either side leaves the tables nothing
to say and keeps the byte walk it had, so a byte indexed build is unchanged,
byte for byte, and so is `casecmp` in every build.

A character indexed build grows by 1,264 bytes: 144 for the runs, 515 for the
103 multi character foldings, 320 more in the pool they spell themselves in,
24 for the table descriptor, and the rest for the mode and the folding of an
ASCII side.

`MRUBY_CONFIG=ci/gcc-clang rake -m test`, all four builds and the bintests,
KO 0, Crash 0 and Warning 0. Every answer asserted was read off CRuby 4.0.6
first, including `"İ".casecmp?("i")` being false: U+0130 folds to "i" plus
U+0307, which "i" alone does not match.
A case conversion asks each character what case it has. A run of bytes that
spells no character has none, and the walk was handing it back as it stood,
which reads as an answer: `"\xC3ABC".downcase` came back as `"\xC3abc"`, a
string whose first byte still spells nothing.

Raise `ArgumentError` there instead, which is what CRuby answers for the same
input, message and all:

```ruby
"\xC3ABC".downcase   # ArgumentError: input string invalid
```

The refusal covers the four conversions and `casecmp?`, since all five walk
the characters. `casecmp` orders bytes without asking what they spell and goes
on doing that, which is CRuby's split too. A string read as bytes is not
affected either: it spells no characters at all, so it takes the ASCII walk
and has nothing to refuse.

A refused conversion leaves the receiver as it was, the bang forms included:
the walk builds its answer beside the string and the string takes it only at
the end, so there is nothing half converted to hand back.

What the walk records afterwards gets simpler by the same stroke. Every byte
it read spelled a character and every mapping spells characters, so the result
is sound UTF-8 rather than "whatever the source was", and the coderange it
stores says so.

### Size

29 bytes on a character indexed build, the check being one comparison the walk
already had the value for. A byte indexed build is unchanged.

### Verified

`MRUBY_CONFIG=ci/gcc-clang rake -m test`, all four builds and the bintests,
KO 0, Crash 0 and Warning 0.
The define was documented as adding UTF-8 to the character oriented String
methods, which is where it stood when case conversion folded 'A' to 'Z' in
every build. It now decides that too, so the three places that name the define
say so.

`String#casecmp` gets a line of its own in the gem's README, since it is the
one case method the define does not reach: it orders strings by ASCII case
whatever the build, and `casecmp?` beside it is the one that folds.
`mruby-regexp` carries the simple case foldings for /i, and core now carries
the full ones for `String#casecmp?` and the four conversions. Those are the
same 1,483 sources: the full folding of a character either spells one
character, which is what /i wants, or spells several, which /i leaves alone. A
build with the option on was paying for both tables and could disagree with
itself about a folding if one were regenerated and the other were not.

Move the tables and the walks over them into `src/unicase.c`, which knows
about codepoints and nothing about strings or patterns. `string.c` asks it for
a mapping, `mruby-regexp` asks it for a folding, and `re_casefold.h` is gone.

Simple folding is the two run tables read in order, the folding difference
first and the lowercase mapping under it, which is what the difference is a
difference from. `U+1E9E` folds to "ss" fully and pairs with `U+00DF` simply,
and each reader finds its own answer without a second table.

`tools/gen_casefold.rb` no longer generates a folding, so it is
`tools/gen_cased.rb` now: what it writes is `re_cased.h`, the codepoints a
build without the option refuses under /i. It still reads the whole of the
folding data, since what has to be refused is defined by what the other build
folds.

The two directions /i needs over the table are compiled only where the option
asks for them, so a build reading characters without it carries the table its
String methods need and none of the code /i would. What answers is therefore
the option and `MRB_UTF8_STRING` together, which is what `RE_UNICODE_CASE`
spells, and `mrbgem.rake` picks the case test file off that pair rather than
off the option alone: the file that asserts /i folds and the file that asserts
/i refuses have to land on the same side as the code does.

### Size

A build with the option drops 1,511 bytes of text: the 2,460 byte table that
was in the gem is gone, and the walks that were in it move to core, where they
lose an ASCII branch they now share.

A build without it moves by 20 bytes or fewer, and a byte indexed build by
none: what `size` reports there as 80 bytes is `.note.gnu.property` on an
otherwise empty object file, and the linked binary is 24 bytes smaller than
before this branch, which is what the first commit of it accounts for.

### Verified

`MRUBY_CONFIG=ci/gcc-clang rake -m test` from a clean build directory, all
four builds and the bintests, KO 0, Crash 0 and Warning 0. The clean build
matters here: a stale object file kept the deleted header's table and its
tests passed on the old code.

Simple folding was checked against the table it replaces over every codepoint
from 0x80 to 0x10FFFF, all 1,483 sources of the old table included: the two
agree everywhere.
`MRB_REGEXP_UNICODE_CASE` named an option that carried a table of its own
inside the gem. The table is core's now, and what the option turns on is the
two walks over it that /i needs, which sit in core beside the table. A define
named for one gem is the wrong name for something core compiles.

Rename it `MRB_UNICODE_CASE` and give it an entry in mrbconf.md, where the
gem-local name had none. Nothing else moves: the same builds fold the same
characters, and `mruby-regexp` goes on being the only caller. The refusal a
build without the option raises names the new spelling, which is 16 bytes
shorter, and that is the whole of the size difference.
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takumin force-pushed the regexp-case-from-core branch from c119c26 to 8df593c Compare August 15, 2026 11:02
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Rebased onto the updated #7182, which this one is stacked on. Its head moved when it was rebased for the reason explained there.

Neither commit here changed: the case table this moves is not what the rebase touched, and mrb_str_case_convert_unicode() stays in src/string.c, so the prepare it calls is still in the same file.

Checked both commits with full-core, and the tip with mruby-encoding taken out of it as well.

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