knu	2009-08-25 17:57:13 +0900 (Tue, 25 Aug 2009)

  New Revision: 24646

  http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=24646

  Log:
    Mention /\s/ being fixed to match a vertical tab.

  Modified files:
    branches/ruby_1_8/NEWS

Index: ruby_1_8/NEWS
===================================================================
--- ruby_1_8/NEWS	(revision 24645)
+++ ruby_1_8/NEWS	(revision 24646)
@@ -84,6 +84,13 @@
     New alias to #include? for the forward compatibility with 1.9, in
     which the behavior of Range#include? has changed.
 
+  * Regexp
+
+    The regular expression /\s/ now properly matches a vertical tab
+    character (VT: "\v") and /\S/ does not.  It was a bug that /\s/
+    did not match VT when /[\s]/ does.  It is clear that VT should
+    always be regarded as white space, not to mention String#strip.
+
   * String#getbyte
   * String#setbyte
   * String#ord

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