From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-12-17T17:51:26+09:00
Subject: Re: non-english characters

Hi,

In message "Re: non-english characters"
    on 03/12/17, messju mohr <messju@lammfellpuschen.de> writes:

|but with ISO-8859-+ (1 or 15 in my case) i don't get \w to match
|accented characters.

That's restriction, character class is defined as [a-zA-Z_].
This restriction will be removed in the Ruby 1.9 by using ISO-8859-*
specific encoding.

							matz.