[issue1693050] \w not helpful for non-Roman scripts

[Matthew Barnett]

Matthew Barnett added the comment:

I'm not sure what you're saying.

The re module in Python 3.3 matches only the first codepoint, treating the second codepoint as not part of a word, whereas the regex module matches all 6 codepoints, treating them all as part of a single word.

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