How to match unicode words with ruby 1.9?

Question

I\'m using ruby 1.9 and trying to find out which regex I need to make this true:

Encoding.default_internal = Encoding.default_external = \'utf-8\'
\"föö\".match(         


        

Answer 1

# encoding=utf-8 
p "föö".match(/\p{Word}+/)[0] == "föö"