/aa and \b fail under some utf8 strings

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#95968 (status was 'resolved')

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From @khwilliamson

This is a bug report for perl from public@​khwilliamson.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.15.1.

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my $a = "\x{e2}A";
utf8​::upgrade($a);
say $a =~ qr/ (?aa​: \x{e2} \b A* ) /x;

This should succeed since "A" is a \w under /aa;
"\x{e2}" is not a \w under /aa

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Flags​:
  category=core
  severity=high

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Site configuration information for perl 5.15.1​:

Configured by khw at Fri Jul 29 08​:53​:27 MDT 2011.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 15 subversion 1) configuration​:
  Commit id​: 18e84e8
  Platform​:
  osname=linux, osvers=2.6.35-30-generic-pae,
archname=i686-linux-thread-multi-64int-ld
  uname='linux karl 2.6.35-30-generic-pae #54-ubuntu smp tue jun 7
20​:28​:33 utc 2011 i686 gnulinux '
  config_args='-des -Dprefix=/home/khw/blead -Dusedevel
-D'optimize=-ggdb3' -A'optimize=-ggdb3' -A'optimize=-O0' -Dman1dir=none
-Dman3dir=none -DDEBUGGING -Dusemorebits -Dusethreads'
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
  useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
  use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=define
  usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
  optimize='-O0 -ggdb3',
  cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
  ccversion='', gccversion='4.4.5', gccosandvers=''
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
  ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='long double', nvsize=12,
Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
  alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib/../lib /usr/lib/../lib /lib /usr/lib
/usr/lib/i686-linux-gnu
  libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
  perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
  libc=/lib/libc-2.12.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  gnulibc_version='2.12.1'
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
  cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -ggdb3 -ggdb3 -O0
-L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'

Locally applied patches​:

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@​INC for perl 5.15.1​:
  /home/khw/perl/blead/lib

/home/khw/blead/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.15.1/i686-linux-thread-multi-64int-ld
  /home/khw/blead/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.15.1
  /home/khw/blead/lib/perl5/5.15.1/i686-linux-thread-multi-64int-ld
  /home/khw/blead/lib/perl5/5.15.1
  /home/khw/blead/lib/perl5/site_perl
  .

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Environment for perl 5.15.1​:
  HOME=/home/khw
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE=en_US​:en
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)

PATH=/home/khw/bin​:/home/khw/print/bin​:/bin​:/usr/local/sbin​:/usr/local/bin​:/usr/sbin​:/usr/bin​:/sbin​:/usr/games​:/home/khw/cxoffice/bin
  PERL5OPT=-w
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL=/bin/ksh

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From @khwilliamson

Resolved by commit f2e96b5
--Karl Williamson

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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

Resolved by commit f2e96b5
--Karl Williamson

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@khwilliamson - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'