From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-09-24T18:58:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] upper to lower first letter of a word



"Yvon Thoraval" <yvon.thoravallist@-SUPPRIMEZ-free.fr.invalid> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag
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> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@mail.com> wrote:
>
> > Really?  That's arguably a bug.  What character encoding are you
using?
>
> I'm (more-or-less) sure about that because even if i put :
>   l.gsub!(/\b[a-z������������������]+/) { |w| black_list.include?(w) ? w
> : w.capitalize }

I'd omit the "\b" at the beginning since "�" then still matches a word
boundry:

l.gsub!(/[a-z������������������]+/) { |w| black_list.include?(w) ? w
: w.capitalize }

Alternatively:

l.gsub!(/[^\s!?.;:-]+/) {|w| black_list.include?(w) ? w : w.capitalize }

Regards

    robert