From: "Andreas S." Date: 2010-09-30T00:18:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.2: /\w/u does not match umlauts ("ΓΌ") After some more googleing I found this bug report (don't know why I didn't catch it earlier) that states that this is the desired behavior: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3181 Still, I don't understand the motivation for making this change. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.