On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wonder whether this was a bad idea. I think it's unsurprising for the > definition of "alphanumeric" to depend on locale, but I bet most people > are not expecting \d to vary that way. FWIW, tha Perl man page on unicode (perldoc perlunicode) says: <quote> It is worth stressing that there are several different sets of digits in Unicode that are equivalent to 0-9 and are matchable by "\d" in a regular expression. If they are used in a single language only, they are in that language's "Script" and "Script_Extension". ... </quote> When working with Unicode/UTF8, I do not think it is safe to assume \d matches only ASCII [0-9]. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
