From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2011-03-02T05:42:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Pattern matching French accented characters

7stud -- wrote in post #984785:
> If you are not familiar with unicode, and you want to match utf-8
> characters, then you better start reading some unicode tutorials.  If
> you are already familiar with unicode in general, then in ruby you can
> set the $KCODE variable to 'U' for UTF-8, and then you can require the
> jcode standard library, which will change the way regexes work--they
> will match characters rather than single bytes.
>

Uhhmm...you don't need to require 'jcode' to make regexes match 
characters rather than bytes--just set $KCODE = 'U' (or 'UTF-8').  The 
jcode library just gives you some methods like jsize to get the 
character length rather than the byte length, which is what String#size 
returns.

As an alternative, you can set the /u flag for a regex to make it match 
characters rather than bytes.

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