win32 ruby1.9 regexp and cyrillic string

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Published on 2010-04-27T14:06:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 14:13 UTC
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#coding: utf-8
str2 = "asdf????????"
p str2.encoding #<Encoding:UTF-8> 
p str2.scan /\p{Cyrillic}/ #found all cyrillic charachters
str2.gsub!(/\w/u,'') #removes only latin characters
puts str2

The question is why \w ignore cyrillic characters?

I have installed latest ruby package from http://rubyinstaller.org/. Here is my output of ruby -v ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i386-mingw32]

As far as i know 1.9 oniguruma regular expression library has full support for unicode characters.

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