From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-04-16T03:31:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.1 - invalid multibyte escape: //  (RegexpError)

On Apr 8, 2009, at 9:47 AM, James Gray wrote:

> On Apr 8, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Brian Candler wrote:
>
>> * What about string literals which include escape sequences like \u?
>> This seems to override the source encoding rule.
>
> I plan to cover this in the next article.
>
>> * What encoding is chosen for regexp literals? (Seems to be different
>> rules to string literals). What about string literals which include
>> #{interpolation}? What about regexp literals which include
>> #{interpolation}?
>
> I'm going to cover this too.
>
>> * I think it will be worth explaining what you need to do to handle
>> binary data (using "rb" and "wb", the ASCII-8BIT encoding, how to set
>> external encoding for STDIN, the fact that read() and gets() return
>> different encodings for the same data...)
>
> Planned for the next article.

I've added a new post to my m17n series covering all of the above and  
more:

http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/miscellaneous_m17n_details

James Edward Gray II