Document "\x{...}" and "\N{U+...}" Unicode escapes in PCRE patterns

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Affected page

https://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.escape.php

Current issue

The PHP manual page describing escape sequences in PCRE patterns
(regexp.reference.escape.php) currently does not document two Unicode
escape syntaxes supported by PCRE2:

• \x{hhhh}
• \N{U+hhhh}

Both forms allow matching a Unicode character by its code point and are
supported by the PCRE2 engine.

Adding these escape sequences to the documentation would improve
completeness and help users write portable Unicode-aware regular
expressions.

reference:
https://pcre2project.github.io/pcre2/doc/pcre2pattern/

Suggested improvement

\x{hhhh}

Matches the Unicode character whose code point is U+hhhh.

\N{U+hhhh}

Matches the Unicode character whose code point is U+hhhh.

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