From: Caio Chassot <dev@...>
Date: 2009-12-14T22:53:17+09:00
Subject: Ruby 1.9 string slicing and StringScanner pointers

Hi all,

Earlier today I posted this question to Stack Overflow:

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1899999

Basically, it boils down to this:

> I'm working with UTF-8 strings in Ruby 1.9. I need to get a slice using byte-based indexes, not char-based, because StringScanner's internal pointers are byte-based.

While I welcome answers to that question here, I'm posting to ask
something else:

Should this be considered a bug in StringScanner? Wouldn't it make more
sense for it to use character indexes?
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