From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2003-03-10T23:57:01+09:00
Subject: Re: What character sets are available in Ruby ?

> But, wouldn't you also want deal with string length method, and any
> character methods (I dunno Ruby -- does it have uppercase and stuff
> like that, or iswhitespace) ?

Ruby only handles byte strings, so #length, #downcase, etc, are not
unicode-aware. You can find some of the functionality in the library
'unicode', which works with UTF-8 strings.

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=unicode