Can regular expressions work with different languages?

Question

English, of course, is a no-brainer for regex because that\'s what it was originally developed in/for:

Can regular expressions understand this charact

Answer 1

It depends on the implementation and the character set. In general the answer is "Yes," but it may require additional setup on your part.

In Perl, for example, the meaning of things like \w is altered by the chosen locale (use locale).