From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2010-09-30T00:36:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.2: /\w/u does not match umlauts ("ü")

Andreas S. wrote:
> I found that, unlike Ruby 1.8, the word character class in Ruby 1.9
> regexes does not match german umlauts (or any other letters other than
> ASCII). According to the oniguruma documentation
> (http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/doc/RE.txt), it should match
> everything from the unicode "letter" category, which includes umlauts.

http://github.com/rdp/ruby_tutorials_core/wiki/Ruby-Talk-FAQ#unicode_not_found

so it's intended, however if you extremely dislike this, then complain 
about it since apparently it's surprising to a number of people :)

-r
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