From: Anthony Ss <anthony@...>
Date: 2010-06-04T19:19:09+09:00
Subject: Unexpected length of £ (pound) character?

Hi,

Today I came across an issue with a customer custom report which was out
by 1 char over 40 or so lines. At first thought I had incorrectly
limited the field length, however the problem is only present where
there is a '£' char.

For example:
  "1234".length => 4
  "1234£".length => 6 (Expect 5)
  "1234£6".length => 7 (Expect 6)

Tested on:
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux]
and:
ruby 1.8.6 (2009-03-31 patchlevel 368) [x86_64-linux]

I could not find anything in google covering this (Perhaps my google-fu
needs work) which brought me here.

Is this expected functionality in ruby? It does not seem right in my
mind.

Thanks. :)
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