[#11439] comments needed for Random class — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>

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15 messages 2007/06/12

[#11450] Re: new method dispatch rule (matz' proposal) — David Flanagan <david@...>

This is a late response to the very long thread that started back in

17 messages 2007/06/13

[#11482] Ruby Changes Its Mind About Non-Word Characters — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

Does this look like a bug to anyone else?

10 messages 2007/06/16

[#11505] Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...4x.org>

1.8.6 thread support was broken in bad ways. It stayed for three months

20 messages 2007/06/20
[#11512] Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...> 2007/06/20

Hi, I'm the 1.8.6 branch manager.

[#11543] Re: Apple reportedly to ship with ruby 1.8.6-p36 unless informed what to patch — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:

10 messages 2007/06/27

Re: Ruby Changes Its Mind About Non-Word Characters

From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-06-17 04:11:11 UTC
List: ruby-core #11491
On Jun 16, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Vincent Isambart wrote:

> It is because the and サ characters are not in ISO-8859-1.

The characters were in UTF-8, which is why I asked iconv to convert  
them.  Don't take my word for it though, I gave you the source so you  
could double-check me.

> The ? character has the same code in both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 as it
> is an ASCII character...

My text editor and terminal don't agree:

Firefly:~/Desktop$ cat saved_as_utf8.txt saved_as_latin1.txt
ォサ
??
Firefly:~/Desktop$ ruby -e 'p ARGF.read' saved_as_utf8.txt  
saved_as_latin1.txt
"\302\253\302\273\n\253\273\n"

James Edward Gray II

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