From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-06-17T23:17:49+09:00
Subject: Re: nothing new in ruby_core for four days ?

Michel Demazure wrote:
> I switched sometime ago to 1.9 and my app now uses ordered hashes and 
> enumerators.

Certainly there are cool new features in 1.9, and apparently improved 
speed. But these are outweighed for me by the total mess which is 
encodings.

> But 
> 1.9.2 implies (or is it 1.9.x ?) - alas poor Yorick! -  changing 
> Regexp's : \d, \s,\w and the like work no more with utf-8 encodings!

Care to share an example, or point to a blog with more details? I have 
an older 1.9.2 lying around, it doesn't seem to behave how you describe.

>> RUBY_DESCRIPTION
=> "ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-07-18 trunk 24186) [i686-linux]"
>> a = "groß 123 über"
=> "groß 123 über"
>> a.encoding
=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>
>> a =~ /(\d+)/
=> 5
>> $1
=> "123"
>> a =~ /(\w+)/
=> 0
>> $1
=> "groß"
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