[TxMt] GTDAlt bug

[Allan Odgaard]

On 28/7/2006, at 22:46, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

> [...] since Ruby's unicode support is not sterling by default. I'll  
> see what I can do in this particular case.

What does the code do? Normally no special unicode support should be  
necessary to work with strings.

Though if the strings contain non-ASCII code points then these will  
be stored as two ore more bytes, so never do str[0] and expect to  
extract one code point unless you already know that it’s an ASCII  
character.

Set $KCODE = 'U' or give -KU as argument (e.g. in shebang) to make  
regular expressions multi-byte aware. This means having ‘.’ match  
multi-byte characters (as one code point) etc.

Should you need to explode a string into code points then either do  
str.unpack('U*') or if you have set KCODE you can also do str.split 
(//) -- the former splits into Fixnums the latter into Strings.