From: eden li <eden.li@...>
Date: 2007-05-14T12:50:12+09:00
Subject: Re: regex \w allows non english characters

Depends on what you mean by "work."  If you don't set a global $KCODE
and you don't specify a language as part of the regex options, all
regular expressions will work on the byte level.  It appears ruby
(1.8.x) only supports utf-8 if you set $KCODE = "u" or pass in a u as
a regex option.

>> "你好" =~ /(\w)/u and $1
=> "你"
>> Iconv.iconv("utf-16", "utf-8", "你好") =~ /(\w)/u and $1
=> false

On May 12, 3:27 am, "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As I said a guess ;)  That's really interesting though.  So had it
> been for chars outside of english, I would have been on the ball...
> Any chances that ruby's regex will work on utf8(or 16 or 7 or any of
> the variants)?