From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-03-11T21:49:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Reding unicode characters?

On Mar 10, 2008, at 10:29 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

> James Gray wrote:
>> On Mar 10, 2008, at 10:00 AM, 7stud -- wrote:
>>
>>>> Jose Martin
>>>
>>> Ruby does not support unicode.
>>
>> Really?
>>
>> $ ruby -KU -r jcode -e 'p "Résumé".jsize'
>> 6
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>
> How does that prove the ruby supports unicode?

If the code was not character aware, it would have returned a count of  
the bytes in the String (more than six).  String#size, for example.

> Where are there any unicode characters in your string?

I entered the accented e characters in UTF-8, that's why you see the - 
KU switch to tell Ruby the encoding.

James Edward Gray II