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\w is not synonym for [[:alnum:]] in UTF-8 locales

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>, 18817 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18817: \w is not synonym for [[:alnum:]] in UTF-8 locales
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:04:25 -0600

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On 10/24/2014 11:26 AM, Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
> As \w and \W have been supported in single byte locales only, I added
> support in multibyte locales.
> 

> +
> +          /* \w and \W are documented to be equivalent to [_[:album:]] and
> +             [^_[:alnum:]] respectively, so tell the lexer to process those
> +             strings, each minus its "already processed" '['.  */

s/album/alnum/

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