From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T10:44:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Cropping text strings

From: Glen Holcomb [mailto:damnbigman@gmail.com] 
# On 9/17/07, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:
# > Hate to be anal, but that would return the first 50 *bytes*, not
# > characters.
# Good point, I wasn't thinking in Unicode.

ruby1.9 http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9#l104