.Net regex: what is the word character \w?

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Published on 2010-06-08T14:58:56Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 15:02 UTC
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Simple question:
What is the pattern for the word character \w in c#, .net?

My first thought was that it matches [A-Za-z0-9_] and the documentation tells me:

Character class    Description          Pattern     Matches
\w                 Matches any          \w          "I", "D", "A", "1", "3"
                   word character.                  in "ID A1.3"

which is not very helpful.
And \w seems to match äöü, too. What else? Is there a better (exact) definition available?

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