From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2008-09-17T13:11:48+09:00
Subject: Re: get a portion of a utf8 encoded string

Heesob Park wrote:
> You can do it using regular expression :
> 
>  'h辰llo'.split(//u)[0, 2].to_s  -> h辰

Why make it convoluted when ruby makes it so easy to use regexps:

 >> puts 'h辰llo'[/.{2}/um]
h辰