From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2010-04-28T23:20:47+09:00
Subject: Re: win32 ruby1.9 regexp and cyrillic string

On 4/27/10, Nikolay Khodyunya <nickolayho@gmail.com> 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 think that \w (and similar shortcuts) is supposed to match ascii
characters only... thus it's equivalent to [a-zA-Z].

Isn't there some kind of unicode character class you can use?