matz / ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Considering its origin, pretty suprisingly, the answer is no.  You
> can emulate it by character class though. /[a-zA-Z]/ with replacing
> a with "Hiragana a" z with "Hiragana n", etc.

like...

/¤¢-¤ó¥¢-¥ó/

?

> Oh, I wish I can write Japanese characters directly here.

Why can't you?  According to your headers, you should have a mule
ready MUA, right?

-- 
Josh Huber