From: Roger Pack Date: 2010-04-28T01:55:24+09:00 Subject: Re: win32 ruby1.9 regexp and cyrillic string > str2.gsub!(/\w/u,'') #removes only latin characters > The question is why /\w/ ignore cyrillic characters? Are cyrillic characters supposed to count as "word characters"? (\w) ? If so then looks like a bug to me. Ping core. -rp -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.