On Nov 30, 2:18 pm, Greg Willits <li... / gregwillits.ws> wrote: > So, what's the secret to using unicode character ranges in Ruby regex > (or Rails validations)? Tim Bray gave a great talk about I18N, M17N and Unicode at the 2006 Ruby Conference. His presentation can be found at: http://www.tbray.org/talks/rubyconf2006.pdf He described how many member functions have trouble dealing with these character sets. He made special reference to regular expressions. --Dale