From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-12-29T04:22:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9 hates you and me and the encodings we rode in o

Benoit Daloze wrote:
> 2009/12/27 Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>
> 
>>
>> The solution I use is simple: stick to ruby 1.8.x. When that branch
>> dies, perhaps reia will be ready. If not I'll move to something else.
>>
>> IMO, both python 3 and erlang have got the right idea when it comes to
>> handling UTF8.
>> --
>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>
>>
> Hi,
> 
> I got this kind of problem yesterday too.
> 
> While taking some file names with Dir#[], I got some special results.
> 
> I was searching for "bad" file names, I mean file names with é,ê or
> whatever. When I print the String given in the block directly, no 
> problem.
> 
> But then I come with things like:
> /Users/benoitdaloze/Library/GlestGame/data/lang/espan>̃<ol.lng
> 
> (The ~ is separated from the n and then is not ñ). The Regexp is acting 
> like
> it is 2 different characters. 

And so it is.  If memory serves, Mac OS X stores filenames in normal 
form D.

> How to handle that easily?

Normalize to normal form C instead.

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org
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