From: Evan Martin <martine@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T07:13:41+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 06:46:41AM +0900, Dossy wrote:
> > String#split is multi-byte aware.
> > 
> >   $KCODE="EUC"
> >   a = "\xa1\xa1\xa1\xa2".split("")
> >   $KCODE="NONE"
> >   p a	#=> ["\241\241", "\241\242"]
> > 
> > Or
> >   a = "\xa1\xa1\xa1\xa2".split(//e)
> >   p a	#=> ["\241\241", "\241\242"]
> 
> Oh, hey, wow!  Who snuck this in and where was it documented?  :-)
> 
> It works on 1.6.7 (2002-03-19), cool!

Of course Ruby works with Japanese encodings... it's used by Japanese
people, after all. :)

The discussion here about multibyte encodings is mostly about Unicode, I
think, which is not supported by Ruby.

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