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I have a weird problem. consider this short code:

<?php
$reg =  '/(?<!\pL)(test)(?!\pL)/u';
$text='This is a test text';
$replace = 'test_replaced';

$newtext = preg_replace($reg, $replace, $text);

echo "Error: ".preg_last_error()."\nResult: ".$newtext."\n";

?>

On some servers the UTF8 boundary matching does not work. I get 

Error: 0
Result:

On majority servers everything works normally:

Error: 0
Result: This is a test_replaced text

There seems to be a problem with word boundary as when I use \b instead the code works.

Both servers use php 5.2.13. Any clues what might be wrong and how to get around it?

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Comment here seems to suggest that PCRE needs to be compiled with --enable-unicode-properties.

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