From: Jose <jldiaz@...>
Date: 2007-12-07T09:54:59+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 and printf

On 5 dic, 14:58, MonkeeSage <MonkeeS...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, I think you'll have to use something ugly like this...
>
> def pad(n, s)
>   (" " * (n - s.unpack("U*").length)) + s
> end
>  [...]

Hey, thank you very much. The trick of unpack to find the string
length is a nice one. And s.unpack("U*").length is only 4 times slower
than s.length, according to my benchmarks.

Anybody knows this printf "bug" will be solved in ruby 1.9?

Regards,
--Jose