Unicode equivalents for \w and \b in Java regular expressions?

Question

Many modern regex implementations interpret the \\w character class shorthand as \"any letter, digit, or connecting punctuation\" (usually: underscore). That wa

Answer 1

It's really unfortunate that \w doesn't work. The proposed solution \p{Alpha} doesn't work for me either.

It seems [\p{L}] catches all Unicode letters. So the Unicode equivalent of \w should be [\p{L}\p{Digit}_].