Fixes T9732. We currently tokenize strings (like user realnames) in the default non-unicode mode, which can cause patterns like \s to work incorrectly.

Use /u to use unicode-aware tokenization instead.

The behavior of "\s" depends upon environmental settings like LC_ALL.

With LC_ALL set to "C", \xA0 is not considered a whitespace character.
With LC_ALL set to "en_US", it is:

$ php -r 'setlocale(LC_ALL, "C"); echo count(preg_split("/\s/", "\xE5\xBF\xA0")) . "\n";'
1
$ php -r 'setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US"); echo count(preg_split("/\s/", "\xE5\xBF\xA0")) . "\n";'
2

To reproduce the original issue, I added an explicit:

setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US");

...call before the preg_split() call. This caused "忠" to be improperly split.

I then added "/u", and observed proper tokenization.