On Sep 14, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Michael Selig wrote:

> Sorry, I made a mistake in my previous mail.
>
> Should say:
> Regexp.new("abc".encode("UTF-16BE"))
> ==> EncodingCompatibilityError: incompatible character encodings: US- 
> ASCII and UTF-16BE
>
> Bug?

Yes, I can confirm this behavior with the Ruby I built yesterday.  I  
recommend you file it in Ruby's bug trackers.

Now if Regexp is out for non-ASCII encodings, that's going to make  
them hell to support in CSV.  I'm running out of good idea