From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2002-02-13T01:42:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexps and latin-1

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 16:31, Damien Wyart wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I would need to use Ruby on text files containing latin-1 characters. I
> have been a bit surprised this is not possible in plain Ruby 1.6 ! Seems
> like Perl does not handle this neither (maybe recent versions ?), but
> Python does, I think.
> 
> I have tried freq.rb (in sample/) on a file with latin-1 words, and it
> doesn't work. Is there a (simple) workaround in 1.6 ? In 1.7 (CVS) ?
> 
> Any code snippets will be much apreciated.
> 

Ehhh...  Why shouldn't ruby or perl be able to handle latin-1
characters??  I use both languages with files that includes latin-1
characters alot and have never had any problems with it.

ruby -e 'a="B�gfors"; a =~ /(�)/; print "#{$1}"'
�

seams to work for me.

/Erik
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