I would like to have \w match even Unicode letters, but it is not doing so. With the following code, 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $a;

$a = "/i/áéíóúýz/pl";

print qq(1: ),$a,qq(\n);

($a) = ($a =~ m/^([\/\p{Word}]+)/);

print qq(2: ),$a,qq(\n);

exit(0);

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I get the following output, 

1: /i/áéíóúýz/pl
2: /i/

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What I expected and would like to find a way to achieve would be the following instead, 

1: /i/áéíóúýz/pl
2: /i/áéíóúýz/pl

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If I throw in a use utf8 then the letters with diacritical marks disappear also from the first line of output.

What have I missed?

In reply to UTF8 versus \w in pattern matching by mldvx4

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