GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 90558
Use locale data from C-lib
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Word characters are listed in the configuration file. This is incorrect: fetch these data from the C-lib locale. You can check locale in the ./configure script and compile old behavior if the system has no locale (Win95 only, all others do have).
I don't see a way to do this while also leaving the word chars configurable (people tweak them to handle URLs and stuff).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77134 ***