> For your convenience, I tell you two well-known incompatibilities: > > - \d, \s and \w in Regexp does match *only* ASCII characters. > Especially, \w does NOT match with accented character, umlaut, > etc. In other words, it behaves the same as 1.8. Appears this has been the case for 1.9.1 with p378+ http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3181 As a suggestion, too, it might be nice to change functionality like this only on the release level, not the patch level, as this one apparently was. Thanks! -r -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.