# normalized-matcher
Matchers become equal after Unicode, whitespace, placeholder, and regular-expression
normalization, although their original source differs. Distinct matcher kinds or meaningful regex
flags remain distinct. Consolidate the definitions or rewrite the intended distinction so it
survives normalization.
## Language support
| Supported. | Supported for Cucumber Expressions and the translated Ruby regex subset. Other regexes are indeterminate and the run is incomplete. |
Cucumber-Ruby support is experimental; see [Cucumber-Ruby](../discovery/cucumber-ruby.md).
Back to the [rule index](../rules.md#normalized-matcher).