diff --git a/agents/bengali-reviewer.md b/agents/bengali-reviewer.md
index b46213d8e..a6682fcf2 100644
--- a/agents/bengali-reviewer.md
+++ b/agents/bengali-reviewer.md
@@ -117,8 +117,12 @@ first_char = graphemes[0]  # Returns 'ক্ষ' as a complete unit
   from Unicode code point order.
 - **Tokenization splitting on whitespace only** — Bengali has compound words and
   postposition attachments that require linguistic tokenization.
-- **Regex not covering Bengali range** — Character class patterns like `\w` or `[a-zA-Z]`
-  that exclude Bengali characters when Bengali input is expected.
+- **Regex not covering Bengali range** — Character classes like `[a-zA-Z]` that
+  exclude Bengali characters when Bengali input is expected, and `\w` used to match
+  Bengali words. `\w` is ASCII-only in JavaScript (with or without the `u` flag) and
+  in Python with `re.ASCII`. In Python `str` patterns it matches Bengali letters but
+  not vowel signs or hasanta (category M), so `re.findall(r'\w+', 'রহিম')` returns
+  `['রহ', 'ম']`. Recommend `[ঀ-৿]` or the `regex` module's `\p{Bengali}`.
 - **Bengali digits not handled** — Validation or parsing that rejects Bengali digits
   (০-৯) when users may input them.
 
diff --git a/skills/bengali-nlp/SKILL.md b/skills/bengali-nlp/SKILL.md
index 305fd9fdd..e5dabca16 100644
--- a/skills/bengali-nlp/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/bengali-nlp/SKILL.md
@@ -339,12 +339,16 @@ CREATE TABLE bengali_content (
 --      FROM pg_database WHERE datname = current_database();
 --
 -- 2. The exact collation must exist with the right provider and locale.
---    `collcollate` holds the locale on PG < 15; `colllocale` holds it on PG 15+,
---    so check both and require a non-null match:
---    SELECT collprovider = 'i' AS icu_provider,
---           coalesce(colllocale, collcollate) AS locale
---      FROM pg_collation
---     WHERE collname = 'bn-BD-x-icu';
+--    The ICU locale column moved between releases: `collcollate` on PG <= 14,
+--    `colliculocale` on PG 15-16, `colllocale` on PG 17+. Naming a column the
+--    server lacks is an error, so read them through to_jsonb(), which works on
+--    every version, and require a non-null match:
+--    SELECT c.collprovider = 'i' AS icu_provider,
+--           coalesce(to_jsonb(c) ->> 'colllocale',
+--                    to_jsonb(c) ->> 'colliculocale',
+--                    c.collcollate) AS locale
+--      FROM pg_collation c
+--     WHERE c.collname = 'bn-BD-x-icu';
 --
 -- A name-only `CREATE COLLATION IF NOT EXISTS` is not enough: it silently keeps
 -- an existing collation that may be bound to a different provider or locale.