From: messju mohr <messju@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T17:27:45+09:00
Subject: Re: non-english characters

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:05:32PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: non-english characters"
>     on 03/12/17, Daniel Bretoi <lists@debonair.net> writes:
> 
> |I'm not sure, how can I find out what the germans use? and once I know
> |that part, how do I use it?
> 
> Ask somebody around you to find out.  Then if you're going to use
> Unicode (UTF-8), write your script in UTF-8 and invoke Ruby with -Ku
> option.  If you use ISO-8859-* or any other single byte encoding, you
> don't have to do anything special.
>
> 							matz.

hmm.

regexp works fine for me with unicode. either with "ruby -Ku" on
startup or with the /u as regexp-option.

but with ISO-8859-+ (1 or 15 in my case) i don't get \w to match
accented characters.

no big deal, i'm just curious what i'm doing wrong here. i'm using
ruby-1.8.1 from debian testing.