From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-12-14T18:37:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby and a Ruby Reference

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> In message "Re: Unicode in Ruby and a Ruby Reference"
>     on Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:33:17 +0900, Mike McGavin <iizogii@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> |1.  I was wondering what the state is of Ruby and support for Unicode?
> | For instance, I'm coming mostly from Python which has a special
> |Unicode type that can be translated to various encodings on request. 
> |I can't seem to find anything similar in Ruby.  Does it exist
> |anywhere, or is it standard to deal with Unicode in a completely
> |different way, or is it something that hasn't been developed at this
> |point?
> 
> Handing Unicode (UTF-8) is OK.  Ruby's strings can contain any
> sequence of bytes.  Regex engine is aware of UTF-8 so that you can
> use pattern match against Unicode characters.  For encoding
> conversion, iconv library is your friend.

However I think that this awareness is just where a code point begins 
and ends. This might have changed with Onigurama, but "�"[/�/i] used to 
return nil.