From: "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2007-09-02T22:37:39+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 character downcase!!

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Igor K.
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 12:09 PM
>
>>> 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
>>> Reply with quote
>>
>>
>> Did you try using the character-encodings gem?
>>
>> http://rubyforge.org/projects/char-encodings/
>>
>> http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2786
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>Thank you for reply
>
>But i can't install this plugin on Windows(the problem i think with
>command 'make', it's missing on Windows XP, so i can't compile source)
>
>Who knows solution for this problem?
>

Install Visual C++ (Express version is free). Then 'nmake'.

V.