From: Vincent Isambart <vincent.isambart@...>
Date: 2007-06-17T19:25:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Changes Its Mind About Non-Word Characters

> Yes it is not a good thing but think that this is not so simple,
> knowing if a Unicode character is a letter or not requires a better
> regexp engine, including tables with the attributes of all Unicode
> characters. But for that you will need to use ruby 1.9. Tim Bray had
> reasons to say that Unicode support in ruby 1.8 sucked. And Matz knows
> it, that's what ruby 1.9 will be better on this point.

And by the way, you do not need to wait if you want to play a little bit:
% ruby-1.9  <<< 'p "�recode�" =~ /\brecode\b/' -KU
2