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

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/208777

and

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/210770

might have clues for you.

You can also use the (documented) \p{L} property, ex:

$ ruby -ve "p '℉üüü' =~ /\p{L}/"
ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [x86_64-linux]
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