From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-01-25T00:51:46+09:00
Subject: Re: remove non-ASCII characters in a string

Dave Burt <dave@burt.id.au> wrote:
> 
> Except that won't work, because tr only matches bytes, not multi-byte 
> characters.
> 
> (It might work after applying one of the Unicode string extensions that have 
> been floating around recently. But not in standard Ruby.)

Oh - didn't know that! Pretty sad. Thanks for the correction.

martin