Re^3: \b in Unicode regex

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Thanks a lot, Monks.

Knowing that there's no issue wuth \b, I kept investigating. Turned out that one of the strings wasn't really utf8 (for some reason, my terminal insisted on printing it as utf8, though). utf8::decode solved the problem.

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Re^4: \b in Unicode regex by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 23, 2017 at 14:08 UTC
You actually had the opposite problem: You had UTF-8, but the regex engine expects a string of Unicode Code Points^[1]. `utf8::decode` provides the latter from the former. More specifically, it's `\w`, `\b`, `\d`, etc that are defined in terms of UCP.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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