The old __regex_word aliased the mask for xdigit, causing stray
test failures.
The diff may look surprising, as if the previous faulty value had
been set specifically for Windows - but this is due to a restructuring
in 411c630bae0e0d50697651797709987e2cfea92d. Prior to that, there
were OS specific settings for some OSes, and one fallback used for
the rest (which turns out to not work for Windows).
Could we realistically put a future-proofing static_assert down here, something like
and I would expect
also? And/or, could we make a test for this?