word boundary on french accent

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hello, i am doing a simple regex match on french word boundary. it appears that the \b won't match on a french word started or ended with a character with accent. such as Ayité failed the word boundary. Bhêly matches successfully however. i am reading it in as ISO-8859-1 encoding, not utf-8. how do i match word boundary in this case? thanks! James.

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Re: word boundary on french accent by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 16, 2007 at 21:39 UTC
perlre and perllocale say `use locale` affects what `\w` matches. `\b`'s definition is based on `\w`, so `use locale` should affect `\b` as well.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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