From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-10-04T17:17:04+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9: handling meta and control keys


On Oct 4, 2009, at 00:28 , (rkumar) Sentinel wrote:

> (rkumar) Sentinel wrote:
>> 1.8 used to return an int for say ?\M-a or ?C-a (when user types  
>> meta-a
>> or control-a).
>>
>> 1.9 returns a string as "\xE1" instead of 225.
>>
>
> After further searching on :
> http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/what_is_a_character_encoding
>
> I found this:
>
>    ?\M-a.getbyte(0)
>
> It works, however any suggestions on how i can write this so it works
> for both 1.8 and 1.9 would be welcome.

This is what I use in ruby_parser:

# I hate ruby 1.9 string changes
class Fixnum
   def ord
     self
   end
end unless "a"[0] == "a"