From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2006-03-08T21:44:52+09:00
Subject: Re: unicode in ruby

On 3/8/06, Richard Gyger <richard@bytethink.com> wrote:> i'm using IO.foreach to parse the lines in a file. now i'm trying to get> it to work with unicode encoded files. does ruby support unicode? how do> i compare a variable with a unicode constant string?>> the script goes something like:>> IO.foreach("myfile.txt") { |line|>    if line.downcase[0,2] == "id"
To get unicode downcase you probably want icu4r. To handle the casesyou are interested in you could write your own. However, the []operator of ruby strings returns bytes, not characters.
hth
Michal
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