From: "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2007-09-01T19:35:09+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 character downcase!!

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Igor K.
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 1:24 PM
>
>Hello,
>Who can help me with problem?
>
>I have  a word = "頏蝸續", it's in russian, and i want to downcase this
>word(=侑夫都). But standart method downcase not works with non-english
>letters
>
>Thank you for reply
>--

First of all, do you know about ror2ru google group? You'll be much
comfortable there with unicode questions...

Brief answer is: there's Unicode gem, which allows things like
Unicode#downcase(string). 

Longer answer is: there's also Julian's Tarkhanov unicode_hacks, which uses
this gem for more comfortable things like string#downcase.

Even longer answer is: russian RoR community has something more organized
about this, but personally I don't know, as I'm do nothing with RoR. I use
unicode+unicode_hacks.

V.