From: "Johan Sörensen" <johans@...>
Date: 2004-12-18T00:42:35+09:00
Subject: utf-8 & Range under eruby (possibly Rails) problems

Hi,

I'm having some issues with a range that truncates texts, the below is
a (very) simplified version of the truncate method thats used in rails
(which is where I discovered this):

# this in an utf-8 encoded erb template (a rails "view" in my case)
<% text = "Eftersom jag jobbar som kontrukt�r/ingenj�r p� dagarna och
hackar cocoa" -%>
<%= text[0..47] %>
<br />
<%= text[0..48] %>
<br />
# notice the 'o' in ingenjor instead of '�' 
<% othertext = "Eftersom jag jobbar som kontrukt�r/ingenjor p� dagarna
och hackar cocoa" -%>
<%= othertext[0..47] %>

#produces  this (the last character on the first line will display as
a "funny character" in browsers)

 Eftersom jag jobbar som kontrukt�r/ingenj�r p?
 Eftersom jag jobbar som kontrukt�r/ingenj�r p�
 Eftersom jag jobbar som kontrukt�r/ingenjor p�
 

Is this a possible bug in Ruby (1.8.1) or could it be something with
Rails that gets in the way, I can reproduce this across two servers
and in webrick.
I was unable to do this properly in irb, since my terminal (or irb)
would act funny on the ���'s..

--johan

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Johan S�rensen
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www.johansorensen.com