From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2007-05-11T04:25:42+09:00
Subject: Re: regex \w allows non english characters

I'm making a guess here, but ruby is probably looking at the Hebrew
characters as a normal range of chars, with a character encoding.  Now
what encoding Hebrew uses I'm not sure, but for instance the ascii
code for 'a' is 97.  The code for one of the Hebrew characters is
probably 97 also.  Since ruby doesn't really do UTF, it just sees two
characters, both with a code of 97, and lets them through.

--Kyle