Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Extend matched name characters in maintainers_in_file()

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 10:47 +0200, Janne Grunau wrote:
> Extend the regexp matching name characters to cover Unicode blocks Latin
> Extended-A and Extended-B.
> Fixes 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f' for
> 'Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/apple,nco.yaml'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau <j@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> This still excludes Greek and Cyrilic characters which should be
> expected in names as well. I tried to use '\p{L}' to match all Unicode
> letters but couldn't get it to work. Feel free understand this as bug
> report with an incomplete fix.

Maybe use \p{XPosixAlpha} ?

but I don't know what version of perl introduced this.

> diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
[]
> @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ sub maintainers_in_file {
>  	my $text = do { local($/) ; <$f> };
>  	close($f);
>  
> -	my @poss_addr = $text =~ m$[A-Za-zÀ-ÿ\"\' \,\.\+-]*\s*[\,]*\s*[\(\<\{]{0,1}[A-Za-z0-9_\.\+-]+\@[A-Za-z0-9\.-]+\.[A-Za-z0-9]+[\)\>\}]{0,1}$g;
> +	my @poss_addr = $text =~ m$[A-Za-zÀ-ɏ\"\' \,\.\+-]*\s*[\,]*\s*[\(\<\{]{0,1}[A-Za-z0-9_\.\+-]+\@[A-Za-z0-9\.-]+\.[A-Za-z0-9]+[\)\>\}]{0,1}$g;

	my @poss_addr = $text =~ m$[\p{XPosixAlpha}\"\' \,\.\+-]*\s*[\,]*\s*[\(\<\{]{0,1}[A-Za-z0-9_\.\+-]+\@[A-Za-z0-9\.-]+\.[A-Za-z0-9]+[\)\>\}]{0,1}$g;

?

>  	push(@file_emails, clean_file_emails(@poss_addr));
>      }
>  }
> @@ -2460,7 +2460,7 @@ sub clean_file_emails {
>  	    $name = "";
>  	}
>  
> -	my @nw = split(/[^A-Za-zÀ-ÿ\'\,\.\+-]/, $name);
> +	my @nw = split(/[^A-Za-zÀ-ɏ\'\,\.\+-]/, $name);

Maybe here too

> +	my @nw = split(/[^\p{XPosixAlpha}\'\,\.\+-]/, $name);

Dunno haven't tested.  Maybe you care to test?