From: martin@... (Martin v. Loewis)
Date: 2001-12-05T09:43:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27499] Re: Unicode string for the standard library ?

TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@open-news.com> writes:

> Ruby's string is byte sequence, but Ruby's regex supports
> UTF-8 string. For example,  /./u  matches one UTF-8
> character(one code unit).

How can I do Unicode ranges? This won't work

str = "soci\303\251t\303\251"
p str.gsub(/[\303\251-\303\254]/u,"?")

I expect to get one replacement character per Unicode character, but
actually get two of them.

Regards,
Martin