From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2010-04-28T02:20:35+09:00
Subject: Re: win32 ruby1.9 regexp and cyrillic string

Nikolay Khodyunya wrote:
> #coding: utf-8
> str2 = "asdfМикимаус"
> p str2.encoding #<Encoding:UTF-8>
> p str2.scan /\p{Cyrillic}/ #found all cyrillic charachters
> str2.gsub!(/\w/u,'') #removes only latin characters
> puts str2
> 
> The question is why /\w/ ignore cyrillic characters?
> 
> I have installed latest ruby package from http://rubyinstaller.org/.
> Here is my output of ruby -v
> ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i386-mingw32]

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3181
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3202

might be related. If you think it's wrong then bring it up on core.
-rp
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