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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2004-01-01 16:30:13 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2004-01-01 16:30:13 +0000
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Document that /[\W]/ doesn't work, unicode-wise (see bug #18281)
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@@ -166,6 +166,10 @@ bytes and match against the character properties specified in the
Unicode properties database. C<\w> can be used to match a Japanese
ideograph, for instance.
+(However, and as a limitation of the current implementation, using
+C<\w> or C<\W> I<inside> a C<[...]> character class will still match
+with byte semantics.)
+
=item *
Named Unicode properties, scripts, and block ranges may be used like