From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2004-12-18T03:54:37+09:00
Subject: Re: utf-8 & Range under eruby (possibly Rails) problems

[Johan S�rensen <johans@gmail.com>, 2004-12-17 19.34 CET]
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 03:20:41 +0900, Carlos <angus@quovadis.com.ar> wrote:
> > It is a Ruby feature :). Indices in strings are bytes, not chars. For the
> > moment, you must develop your own indexing routines for UTF-8 strings
> > (notice that String#[/regex/] works, because regexes are UTF-8 aware).
> 
> I see.
> 
> The thing that has me confused though, is that it's not consistant
> since it'll only happen on the first line in the example I gave.
> I expand the range a little and it'll pass through untouched. I change
> either off the preceeding �'s it'll pass through untouched.

Well, because "�".length == 2 (UTF-8 is a multibyte encoding). Your range's
end was falling between the two bytes of the "�".

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