[xquery-talk] backticks in regex - tales of the unexpected part II

[Michael Kay]

On 7 Apr 2014, at 17:07, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> 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