From: David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@...>
Date: 2007-02-14T09:18:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Puzzling regex behaviour

On 2/14/07, Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> wrote:
> On Wed 14 Feb 2007 at 09:08:17 +0900, David Balmain wrote:
>
> > On 2/14/07, Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >I should have asked by now, but can anyone else reproduce this with
> > >Ruby 1.8.5?
> >
> > I can reproduce this 1.8.4
>
> Just to be clear, you are confirming that the following code:
>
> foo = "pr�f�r�es"
> p foo =~ /[^[:alnum:]]/
>
> prints nil in irb and 2 in a stand-alone script when in both cases your
> locale is preset to nl_NL?

Not nl_NL but en_US.ISO-8859-1. I get the same results as you.

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