From: Xavier Noria Date: 2010-04-18T02:47:59+09:00 Subject: Re: what is String#ord? Yes of course, a posteriori that's the only thing that makes sense. I was in a different context and the doc was not clear enough for me. Perhaps I send a patch to define #ord in terms of the code/codepoint in the string's character encoding, instead of that bare "ordinal".