From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...>
Date: 2007-09-29T06:49:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode

On 9/21/07, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> On 15/09/2007, Zephyr Pellerin <ztz@nxvr.org> wrote:
> > I hate to discuss something related to the development timeline, I know
> > its tenable, but When will it be reasonable to expect Unicode support
> > from Ruby?
>
> Ruby has unicode support. Sort of. Regexes work in UTF-8 when $KCODE
> is set to "U" (and the default is "N" even in UTF-8 locales, and if
> you specify the -K option in the .rb file it overrides the option
> specified on the command line, heh).
> The non-regex methods do not work but you can convert the string with
> str.scan(/./)[0] or str.unpack "U*", and use stuff like each, reverse,
> [], ...
> You have to remember to convert the string back, though.

What about UTF-16?

http://blogs.gnome.org/sudaltsov/2007/09/22/ruby-part2/

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Felipe Contreras