From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2010-02-23T23:41:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [ENCODING] UTF8 hell

Hi,

In message "Re: [ENCODING] UTF8 hell"
    on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:10:20 +0900, Xavier Noëlle <xavier.noelle@gmail.com> writes:

|self.each_byte {|b| print "#{b} "} => 109 233 100 105 99 97 108 115
|
|233 is, AFAIK, a valid UTF8 character, but calling gsub(anything) (eg.
|self.gsub('ruby', 'zorglub')) on this string leads to: `gsub': invalid
|byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError).

233 is not a valid UTF-8 character.  The byte sequence for médicals is
<109 195 169 100 105 99 97 108 115>.

							matz.