in core/src/main/java/org/apache/jsieve/comparators/ComparatorUtils.java [128:132]
private static boolean isRegexSpecialChar(char ch) {
return (ch == '*' || ch == '?' || ch == '+' || ch == '[' || ch == ']'
|| ch == '(' || ch == ')' || ch == '|' || ch == '^'
|| ch == '$' || ch == '.' || ch == '{' || ch == '}' || ch == '\\');
}