From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-06-01T23:29:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [Bug] String.titlecase failing on UTF-8 with accented chars

Manoel Lemos wrote:
> Anybody knows how to solve that?
> 
> Check this:
> 
>>> u.lastname
> => "Guimar\303\243es"
>>> puts u.lastname
> Guimar達es
> => nil
>>> u.lastname.titlecase
> => "Guimar\303\243Es"
>>> puts u.lastname.titlecase
> Guimar達Es   # ------------------> Check the E in capital, this is a bug
> => nil

If you're going to use utf-8 you need at least to set $KCODE='u'

 >> $KCODE='n'
 >> puts "Guimar\303\243es".titlecase
Guimar達Es

 >> $KCODE='u'
 >> puts "Guimar\303\243es".titlecase
Guimar達es

-Daniel