Re: \w doesn't match non-ASCII letters

=D0=92 =D0=9F=D0=BD=D0=B4, 14.06.2004, =D0=B2 17:25, Tom Lane =D0=BF=D0=B8=
=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Markus Bertheau wrote:
> >> oocms=3D# select '=D1=84' ~ '^\\w$';
> >> ?column?
> >> ----------
> >> f
> >> (1 =D0=B7=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D1=8C)
>=20
> > What locale are you using for LC_COLLATE?  If it's C or POSIX, you need=
=20
> > to change it and re-initdb.
>=20
> Another likely cause of trouble is that the regexp character
> classification stuff is presently based on <ctype.h> functions and thus
> cannot work in multibyte encodings.

This is in a UTF-8 database, so yes, these are multibyte characters. Is
there something planned to support UTF-8 in regexps?

--=20
Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>