Java regex vs. Unicode TR#18 vs. ICU

[Steven R. Loomis]

Hello,
  Someone on the ICU team recently compared the use of "\w" between ICU, 
Java, and Unicode TR#18
<http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/#Compatibility_Properties> .
The results are in the following ICU bug 
<http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/10006>.

A question for core-libs-dev is, does Java plan to change the semantics 
of \w to match TR#18's list?

Thanks,
Steven