From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-05-04T12:13:10+09:00
Subject: Re: String problem

On May 3, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> 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.

And those interested in how all that works may find this series on my  
blog helpful:

http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/understanding_m17n

James Edward Gray II