private static function initExtnPatterns()
 {
     // One-character symbols that can be used to indicate an extension.
     $singleExtnSymbolsForMatching = "xx##~~";
     // For parsing, we are slightly more lenient in our interpretation than for matching. Here we
     // allow a "comma" as a possible extension indicator. When matching, this is hardly ever used to
     // indicate this.
     $singleExtnSymbolsForParsing = "," . $singleExtnSymbolsForMatching;
     self::$EXTN_PATTERNS_FOR_PARSING = self::createExtnPattern($singleExtnSymbolsForParsing);
     self::$EXTN_PATTERNS_FOR_MATCHING = self::createExtnPattern($singleExtnSymbolsForMatching);
 }