From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T18:12:00+09:00
Subject: Re: non-english characters


"messju mohr" <messju@lammfellpuschen.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20031217082712.GE17320@pharao.lammfellpuschen.de...
> 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.

I guess \w is defined in terms of ASCII - and there you don't have "�", "�"
and similar chars.

Regards

    robert