From: "Mark J.Reed" <mreed@...>
Date: 2006-01-12T02:38:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Unicode - ever?

David Vallner <david@vallner.net> writes:
>How would the regexp engine match multibyte UTF8 characters that have 
>what is ASCII whitespace as one of the lower bytes? 

Have you ever looked at how UTF-8 works?  Any byte whose decimal value is under
128, anywhere in a UTF-8 string, can ONLY be a genuine occurrance of the ASCII
character with that code point.  Any byte anywhere in a multibyte character
will always have the high bit set.