From: Phillip Hutchings <sitharus@...>
Date: 2006-06-23T06:36:54+09:00
Subject: Re: ascii representation of unicode string?

> >
> > could try:
> >
> > myAscii = s.unpack('U'*s.length).select{|x| x >46}.collect{|x|
> > x.chr}.to_s
>
> Hello,
>
> This is fairly close to something I was trying earlier, except more elegant.
> This seems to be munging my spaces though, as I take it the space code is
> less than 46? Have to look for a chart.
>
> Is unpacking as UTF8 going to be problematic if the string is actually UTF16
> as Philip points out?
>
> I will play some more, thanks guys...
> -d

Spaces are 32 if I recall my ASCII. UTF-16 with no non-ASCII
characters is essentially an ASCII string with NULLs every other byte,
it's quite obvious. UTF-8 with only ASCII just looks like ASCII.

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Phillip Hutchings
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