diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 44b43131cadc..3a66cf3e13a8 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 22dd5b0cba50a197aaa3bd2790a29ee2e8e4e372
+refs/heads/master: a63ceb4c36a7674f7efa90e8ba96b44a3989d717
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/trunk/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 9bb094138dd8..b61002dceaba 100755
--- a/trunk/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/trunk/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ sub parse_email {
     $name =~ s/^\"|\"$//g;
     $address =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
 
-    if ($name =~ /[^a-z0-9 \.\-]/i) {    ##has "must quote" chars
+    if ($name =~ /[^\w \-]/i) {  	 ##has "must quote" chars
 	$name =~ s/(?<!\\)"/\\"/g;       ##escape quotes
 	$name = "\"$name\"";
     }
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ sub format_email {
     $name =~ s/^\"|\"$//g;
     $address =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
 
-    if ($name =~ /[^a-z0-9 \.\-]/i) {    ##has "must quote" chars
+    if ($name =~ /[^\w \-]/i) {          ##has "must quote" chars
 	$name =~ s/(?<!\\)"/\\"/g;       ##escape quotes
 	$name = "\"$name\"";
     }