Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] backticks in regex - tales of the unexpected part II
From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 18:20:26 +0100
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On 7 Apr 2014, at 17:07, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> backticks match the \w regex class which does seem at odds with the
> definition of that class.
You might call it a backtick, and misuse it as a kind of quotation mark, but
its proper Unicode name and intended semantics is "grave accent", and the \w
category includes all non-spacing diacriticals.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
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