From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-10-25T10:50:15+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 strings?

Hi,

At Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:19:08 +0900,
Julik Tarkhanov wrote in [ruby-talk:117548]:
> Some very simple one-liners with my name written in russian yield 
> exceptionally faulty results (ranging from nils to non-displayable 
> characters). I get wrong results from downcase and index lookup, among 
> others. If Ruby cannot do these things with strings I cannot use it for any 
> real-life projects. PHP was ugly but the mbstring extension was doing all 
> the job for me there.

Run ruby with -Ku option if your scripts are written in UTF-8,
or set $KCODE to 'u'.

-- 
Nobu Nakada