From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-09-16T17:50:20+09:00
Subject: Re: get a portion of a utf8 encoded string

From: S2 [mailto:sto.giocando@motor.storm] 
# thanks. even if 'hällo'[0, 2] looks better

upgrade?

> [RUBY_VERSION, RUBY_PATCHLEVEL, RUBY_REVISION, RUBY_PLATFORM]
=> ["1.8.7", 5000, 0, "i686-linux"]

> puts 'hällo'
hällo
=> nil

> puts 'hällo'[0, 2]
hä
=> nil

> puts 'hällo'[0, 3]
häl
=> nil