From ecc56ffe93282558b8de0cdb940315a7e3eaba0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eism <eismailzada@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:02:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fixed #15897: The C++ standard library's regex implementation
 does not support lookarounds

---
 src/engraving/libmscore/harmony.cpp | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/engraving/libmscore/harmony.cpp b/src/engraving/libmscore/harmony.cpp
index 5535516478efd..670be2070aa7f 100644
--- a/src/engraving/libmscore/harmony.cpp
+++ b/src/engraving/libmscore/harmony.cpp
@@ -2104,11 +2104,12 @@ String Harmony::generateScreenReaderInfo() const
             { u"i", u"1" },
         };
         static std::vector<std::pair<String, String> > symbolReplacements {
-            { u"b", u"♭" },
             { u"h", u"♮" },
             { u"#", u"♯" },
             { u"bb", u"𝄫" },
             { u"##", u"𝄪" },
+            { u"b", u"♭" }, // also replace b with ♭ for \b
+            { u"\\♭", u"b" }, // \b should be b, so need to correct replacing in the previous step
             // TODO: use SMuFL glyphs and translate
             //{ "o", ""},
             //{ "0", ""},
@@ -2119,10 +2120,7 @@ String Harmony::generateScreenReaderInfo() const
             aux.replace(r.first, r.second);
         }
         for (auto const& r : symbolReplacements) {
-            // only replace when not preceded by backslash
-            String s = u"(?<!\\\\)" + r.first;
-            std::regex re(s.toStdString());
-            aux.replace(re, r.second);
+            aux.replace(r.first, r.second);
         }
         // construct string one  character at a time
         for (size_t i = 0; i < aux.size(); ++i) {