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07/07/2025

06:39 PM Ruby Bug #21503: \p{Word} does not match on \p{Join_Control} while docs say it does

What I mean is that the current implementation of `\p{Word}` does not seem to match `\p{Join_Control}` even though it should and it also says so in the docs procmarco (Marco Concetto Rudilosso)

06:02 PM Ruby Bug #21503 (Closed): \p{Word} does not match on \p{Join_Control} while docs say it does

in the [docs](https://ruby-doc.org/3.4.1/Regexp.html#:~:text=/%5Cp%7B-,Word,-%7D/%3A%20A%20member) it is mentioned that `\p{Word}` matches the equivalent of: `[\p{M}\p{Nd}\p{Pc}\p{Alpha}\p{Join_Control}]` as it's also defined in the [uni... procmarco (Marco Concetto Rudilosso)

05/25/2022

12:45 PM Ruby Bug #18805 (Closed): IO::Buffer is inconsistent when returning a string from an empty buffer

I’ve been using `IO::Buffer` and I found it to be slightly inconsistent when it comes to returning empty string for empty buffers.
for example, a slice of an allocated buffer with `size = 0`, returns `""` with `get_string`, as an exampl... procmarco (Marco Concetto Rudilosso)