From: pere.noel@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_b=E9vue?=) Date: 2006-03-23T21:43:52+09:00 Subject: perl regexp to ruby one conversion ? i've a perl regexp : $field =~ m/^( [\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E] # ASCII | [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] # non-overlong 2-byte | \xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF] # excluding overlongs | [\xE1-\xEC\xEE\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # straight 3-byte | \xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF] # excluding surrogates | \xF0[\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # planes 1-3 | [\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF]{3} # planes 4-15 | \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2} # plane 16 )*$/x; able to detect if $field is of UTF-8 chars or not and i'd like to convert it into a ruby regexp. How to do that ? -- une b�vue