From: S2 Date: 2008-09-16T17:37:43+09:00 Subject: Re: get a portion of a utf8 encoded string Heesob Park wrote: > You can do it using regular expression : > > 'hällo'.split(//u)[0, 2].to_s -> hä thanks. even if 'hällo'[0, 2] looks better, this works.