[TxMt] Re: how to match unicode?

On 24.09.2008, at 15:01, James Gray wrote:

On Sep 24, 2008, at 4:08 AM, Piero D'Ancona wrote:

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Writing a ruby command for TextMate to reformat author names in a list of papers I run into the obvious but sad fact that /[A-z]/ =~ "ü" does not match anything. Is there a simple workaround?

If you set $KCODE = "U" in Ruby 1.8 (or pass the equivalent -KU switch) character classes like \w change to the Unicode definition of "word" characters:

$ ruby -KU -ve 'p "Résumé"[/\w+/]' ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i686-darwin9.4.0] "Résumé"

Hope that helps

Haha. Please believe me, I did exactly the same. And it didn't work. But after your mail it works. And to be honestly I do not know why ;)

Thanks,

--Hans