UTF-8 and Regular expression

Hi, in 8.4 how does the regular expression functions in postgresql handle
special UTF-8 characters?

for example:
SELECT name,substring(name from E'\\w+\\s(\\w+)$') from nodes;
fails to select characters like ü ø æ å

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