trap exceptions in the configure check for whether boost regex has icu support

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@@ -796,8 +796,15 @@ def boost_regex_has_icu(context):
 
 int main() 
 {
-    UnicodeString ustr; 
+    UnicodeString ustr;
-    boost::u32regex pattern = boost::make_u32regex(ustr);
+    try { 
+        boost::u32regex pattern = boost::make_u32regex(ustr);
+    }
+    // an exception is fine, still indicates support is
+    // likely compiled into regex
+    catch (...) {
+        return 0;
+    }
     return 0;
 }