From: Dominic Rose <ofusiono@...>
Date: 2010-05-11T03:00:00+09:00
Subject: Re: win32 ruby1.9 regexp and cyrillic string

Caleb Clausen wrote:
> 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?

Actually "asdfМикимаус".gsub!(/\w/u,'') returns "" on linux so the 
problem is from the windows package.

you can use "asdfМикимаус".gsub!(/\p{L}/,'') to remove letters thought
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