From: Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov <listbox@...>
Date: 2006-08-01T00:24:43+09:00
Subject: Re: state of unicode support


On 28-jul-2006, at 21:13, why the lucky stiff wrote:

> Ruby itself also understands UTF-8 regular expressions to a  
> degree.  Using the
> 'u' modifier.  Many Ruby-based UTF-8 hacks are based on the idea of:
> str.scan(/./u), which returns an array of strings, each string  
> containing a
> multibyte character. (Also: str.unpack('U*').)

Which is actually useless because this breaks your string between  
codepoints, not between characters. ICU4R currently resolves this, as  
well as a library posted
on ruby-talk a while ago (with proper text boudnary handling).
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