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This regex failed to compile in regex <1.8, but the migration to regex-automata tweaked the rules in a subtle way that permitted it to compile despite the fact that the old/status-quo matching engines can't handle it correctly. By that, I mean that they may permit the \B to match between code units. That in turn results in panicking when slicing a &str.

In regex 1.9, this regex will actually be able to be compiled, but the matching engines will correctly and robustly never report matches that split UTF-8 code units. For now, we just add code that causes regex 1.8 to have the same behavior as previous releases.

Fixes #1006

This regex failed to compile in `regex <1.8`, but the migration to
regex-automata tweaked the rules in a subtle way that permitted it
to compile despite the fact that the old/status-quo matching engines
can't handle it correctly. By that, I mean that they may permit the \B
to match between code units. That in turn results in panicking when
slicing a &str.

In `regex 1.9`, this regex will actually be able to be compiled, but
the matching engines will correctly and robustly never report matches
that split UTF-8 code units. For now, we just add code that causes
`regex 1.8` to have the same behavior as previous releases.

Fixes #1006
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panicked at 'not a char boundary' when using Regex::replace
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