Match whole word does not work for not latin characters (at least for cyrillic)

[KvanTTT]

I created the next document:

я
компилятор
обфускация

i
compiler
cli

And if I am trying to find all whole words "я", vscode highlights all three first words. But if I am trying to find "i", vs code highlights only fourth word.

[nixel2007]

@alexandrudima link to code -
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/fb5b68d199918fbe58e57d4faa3909580430fa4e/src/vs/base/common/strings.ts#L184

The problem is in \b - it doesn't support non-en symbols

[ebugusey]

The problem is that js doesn't have full support for unicode. Even with /u in ES6 it just doesn't work. You should use oniguruma for regular expressions, like Atom does.

[nixel2007]

@ebugusey atom does not use oniguruma everywhere or it doesn't help in all cases. I've made a unicode support for Atom-autocomplete using the XRegExp library.

[martinsuchan]

Just discovered this bug - still happening in VS Code 1.9. It's especially problematic when searching for specific word in localized comments or searching for all usages of variable with short name:

[alexdima]

fyi @roblourens

[bambr1975]

Doesn't work

[alexdima]

Search in files uses a different implementation. Hence the ping to @roblourens

[roblourens]

Opened a new issue for it, #27280