diff -up gwibber-2.91.92/gwibber/microblog/util/__init__.py.kitchen-hash gwibber-2.91.92/gwibber/microblog/util/__init__.py
--- gwibber-2.91.92/gwibber/microblog/util/__init__.py.kitchen-hash	2011-03-25 17:01:48.045113002 -0400
+++ gwibber-2.91.92/gwibber/microblog/util/__init__.py	2011-03-25 17:03:46.061113003 -0400
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ URL_FORMAT = (r'(?<!\w)(((?:%s)://|(?:ww
     ')') % ('|'.join(URL_SCHEMES),)
 
 PARSE_LINK = re.compile(URL_FORMAT, re.U)
-PARSE_NICK = re.compile("\B@([A-Za-z0-9_]+|@[A-Za-z0-9_]$)")
-PARSE_HASH = re.compile("\B#([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+|@[A-Za-z0-9_\-]$)")
+PARSE_NICK = re.compile("\B@([\w]+|@[\w]$)", re.UNICODE)
+PARSE_HASH = re.compile("\B#([\w\-]+|@[\w\-]$)", re.UNICODE)
 PARSE_URLS = re.compile(r"<[^<]*?/?>") 
 
 def strip_urls(text):