From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-05-04T07:59:16+09:00
Subject: Re: String problem

Hi,

In message "Re: String problem"
    on Sun, 3 May 2009 20:23:49 +0900, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> writes:

|Corrections:
|
|In 1.8.* versions, ruby doesn't recognize unicode, where characters [may 
|be]
|represented by multiple bytes.  ruby thinks everything [is] an ascii
|character where characters are represented by one byte.

More Corrections:

In 1.8.* versions, string methods of ruby doesn't recognize multi-byte
characters.  ruby thinks everything is a sequence of bytes.  Regular
expressions in 1.8.* recognize UTF-8, EUC-JP, and Shift_JIS.  So you
can handle Unicode strings by using regular expressions.

							matz.