From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T06:43:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Premature end of regular expression with non-ascii chara

Nick Snels wrote:
> Thank you both very much for the suggestions. First off I have
> $KCODE="u" in config/environment.rb (Rails). I have also tried to add it
> into the class. But the error remained.

I haven't had the issues you're talking about, because I'm only doing apps 
in English, but here are a couple of places you might start to look for 
solutions:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseUnicodeStrings

http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/unicodeLibForRuby18.html

> I could use 1.9.0 because this includes oniguruma. The only
> problem here is that I don't know if Rails works with it.

Don't. 1.9.0 isn't for production, really; it's an experimental version 
which is growing some features that may become part of Ruby 2.0.

Cheers,
Dave