almut,

It is indeed a warm and fuzzy feeling :-)

I agree with you on that I should not disable the optimizations as it is certainly against progress.

This problem, being as dependent on context as it is, went away by simply rewriting the regexp as follows:

$R2 =~ /uci(ones|ón)$/
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And it now works both for latin-1 and UTF-8 words. I will certainly include two copies of the word list in the next release, one in each encoding.

A strange world, this is.

Thanks again for your kind help.

Julio