From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-03-25T02:17:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in Ruby Regexp?

Matt Armstrong wrote:

> However, each of the following bytes must have high bits of 10xxxxxx.
> Since they don't, the string isn't in UTF8 format.  Ruby could
> legitimately detect this and throw an exception, but it doesn't.

Thanks, Matt.  That was very informative.

I got bit by the 7bit/8bit ASCII confusion.

--- SER