add documentation for feature utf16
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I've been looking for a regex impl for my toy JavaScript implementation (mcjs), and I thought
regress
sounded good but still insufficient due to the lack of support for searching on UTF-16 strings.Turns out,
regress
does do exactly what I need! It's just nowhere to be found in the crate documentation (at least not without following the 'Feature flags' link, which I had no reason to, I think). I only found this out by looking at what boa does for its own RegExp implementation.So, I hope this little extra paragraph will be useful for the next one who walks my path.
Let me know if you'd like me to change the format or rephrase the text.