From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-05-11T13:46:14+09:00
Subject: Re: regex \w allows non english characters

Hi,

At Fri, 11 May 2007 04:25:42 +0900,
Kyle Schmitt wrote in [ruby-talk:251082]:
> 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.

/[[:alpha:]]/u

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Nobu Nakada