I don't regularly read emacs-devel mails. I will, however, check this out when I return to the US in a couple of weeks.
rv
[I sent this message a week ago but did not get a response.]
> Since we already have regexp constructs for multibyte
> characters, I guess we should make ffap use them now.
I agree. In ffap.el, similar regexps are used not only in
ffap-string-at-point-mode-alist but also in the other
places. So, I'd like to ask the maintainer of that file to
check throughout the file.
Rajesh Vaidheeswarran <rv@gnu.org>, do you read me?