* Mark J. Reed <markjreed / mail.com> [Aug, 13 2003 03:10]:
>
> Right.  In a UTF-8 file, the string "hispañïla" doesn't
> contain the byte \xf1.  It contains the UTF-8 encoding of the character
> U+00F1, which is \xc3 \xb1.  Ruby can examine the language settings of its
> runtime environment, but has no way of doing so for the environment
> in which the script was written.  So it has no way of knowing what
> character encoding a program file itself uses.  The -Ku option tells Ruby
> that the program file is written in UTF-8.
>
OK.  Thanks for the explanation.  Now to the real issue:
What I wan't to be able to do is
input.tr!("\xf1", "n")
where input contains unicode characters.  This doesn't seem to be
possible.  String is only for ISO-8859-1 strings?  I feel I'm being
stupid here, but sadly I don't know enough about UNICODE to be smart
about it (I hope that makes sense ;-).  I guess I need to be tr'ing for
\xc3\xb1 but that won't be possible.
	nikolai


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