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PCRE's 8-BIT, 16-BIT AND 32-BIT LIBRARIES

From release 8.30, two separate PCRE libraries can be built. The
       original one supports 8-bit character strings, whereas the newer
       16-bit library supports character strings encoded in 16-bit
       units. From release 8.32, a third library can be built,
       supporting character strings encoded in 32-bit units. The
       pcretest program can be used to test all three libraries.
       However, it is itself still an 8-bit program, reading 8-bit input
       and writing 8-bit output.  When testing the 16-bit or 32-bit
       library, the patterns and data strings are converted to 16- or
       32-bit format before being passed to the PCRE library functions.
       Results are converted to 8-bit for output.

       References to functions and structures of the form pcre[16|32]_xx
       below mean "pcre_xx when using the 8-bit library, pcre16_xx when
       using the 16-bit library, or pcre32_xx when using the 32-bit
       library".