title: Regular expressions dont like international characters
body: <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5028717/matching-unicode-characters-in-python-regular-expressions"> matching unicode characters in python regular expressions</a>  </p>
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  <p>Using</p>
  
  <pre><code>re.findall(r'\w+', ip)
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  <p>on <code>Fältskog</code> returns <code>F</code> and <code>ltskog</code>. I tried with both strings and unicode but the same. result</p>