From: Shannon Fang <xrfang@...>
Date: 2002-12-16T04:07:42+09:00
Subject: multi-language support in Ruby

Hi,

I encountered a problem. I think it is related to UNICODE support,
however, since the text I'm processing is in English, so... :-S

The string I'm processing is:

"With only 13 shopping days to go until Christmas don&#8217;t forget"

I used

    text.gsub!(/&#(\d+);/) do $1.to_i.chr end

to process it, and chr reported that 8217 is too large. I don't know if
it is related to double-byte support? The entire article is in English,
IE display is "don't" for the &#8217;... although the apostrophe looks
a little weird...

How can I let ruby to convert a number larger than 255 in chr?

Thanks!
Shannon