From: "Luis G." Date: 2011-01-11T01:53:40+09:00 Subject: Re: Japanese / chinese characters I found out this: irb(main):003:0> p "裏字幕組".unpack("U*") [35023, 23383, 24149, 32068] So, I can unpack it and check if is between the range you talked about, right? If so, now I just need to find the range for the chinese and japanese characters... Isn't this an heavy operation? I have lots of sentences to test, with size not bigger that 512 characters. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.