Regular expressions and non-standard character set

[Petri Mikael Kuittinen]

I want to match word boundaries using the special sequences \b and \B
of regular expressions. They work OK when using the "standard"
alphanumeric set [a-zA-Z0-9_]. But I would like them to work with
character set which also contains various "national characters"
e.g. å, ä, ö, è, é, ü, ñ etc. and their uppercase equivalents.

Locale doesn't seem to be the proper way to do it and appending these
characters to string.letters, string.uppercase, string.lowercase,
before import re doesn't help at all.

What is the proper way of doing it?

Petri

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