From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T03:21:06+09:00
Subject: Re: unicode in ruby


On Mar 8, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Richard Gyger wrote:

> so, you guys are telling me a language developed since the year  
> 2000 doesn't support unicode strings natively? in my opinion,  
> that's a pretty glaring problem.
>

Ruby doesn't really support any strings natively. It just happens to  
have a bytevector class that acts a lot like a string ;) Having said  
that, have you tried:
$KCODE="u" # Assumes the source file is encoded as UTF8, effects  
literal strings, regexps, etc.

If your source file is UTF16 or some other non-UTF8 encoding you'll  
have to use iconv to get into UTF8 to compare with the literals in  
your source.