From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-03-25T15:07:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Regexp followup

Hi,

In message "Re: Unicode in Regexp followup"
    on 02/03/25, Sean Russell <ser@germane-software.com> writes:

|By the way, after I did some research, I found that all characters above 
|0x7F are remapped; therefore, I'd expect problems with string matching UTF8 
|regexps with the entire character range of 0x80-0xFF... but Ruby only gives 
|trouble with the range of 0xF0-0xFD.  I find this rather odd.

By the definition of UTF-8, 0x80-0xEF at the first byte of multibyte
sequence are invalid, so Ruby treats them as if they are single byte
characters.

							matz.