php regex word boundary matching in utf-8

Question

I have the following php code in a utf-8 php file:

var_dump(setlocale(LC_CTYPE, \'de_DE.utf8\', \'German_Germany.utf-8\', \'de_DE\', \'german\'));
var_dump(m         


        

Answer 1

Guess this was related to Bug #52971

PCRE-Meta-Characters like \b \w not working with unicode strings.

and fixed in PHP 5.3.4

PCRE extension: Fixed bug #52971 (PCRE-Meta-Characters not working with utf-8).