From: messju mohr <messju@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T19:40:52+09:00
Subject: Re: non-english characters

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:12:00PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
> "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.

yes, it looks like i got confused by the PCRE library which treats \w
according to the current locale. too-many-languages error. :)

> Regards
> 
>     robert