From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-04-04T19:38:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with String encoding when modifying it in C method

El Sábado 04 Abril 2009, KUBO Takehiro escribió:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> > Hi, I've added a method "multi_capitalize" to String class. This
> > method is done in C and basically modifies the string:
> >
> >  "record-roUTE".multi_capitalize => "Record-Route"
> >
> > The problem is that after the method execution, the new String has
> > ASCII-8BIT encoding, while the original string had UTF-8 (using Ruby
> > 1.9.1).
>
>     rb_encoding *enc = rb_enc_get(original_string)
>
>     /* create a new string with the encoding same with the original string
> */ return rb_enc_str_new(char_pointer, length, enc);
>
> rb_str_new() makes a ASCII-8BIT string.

Thanks.

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Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>