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Confusion about Ruby Regexp \p{Word} character class
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ruby-regex-word-confusion.txt
$ ruby --version
ruby 3.1.2p20 (2022-04-12 revision 4491bb740a) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> /\p{Word}/.match?("\u00B2") # Expected to be true based on description of \p{Word} in Regexp docs
=> false
irb(main):002:0> /\p{Number}/.match?("\u00B2") # U+00B2 is a Number character
=> true
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I opened a bug report here: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19417

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