[TxMt] Re: trouble with e_url in escape.rb (TextMate 2, Mavericks, Ruby 2.x)

[Allan Odgaard]

On 10 Jan 2014, at 9:21, Matt Neuburg wrote:

> […] The problem is that the "n" modifier on the match requires that 
> this string (str) be ASCII-8BIT encoding. But on the Mac a file system 
> path is UTF-8. Thus it is possible that this method will be sent a 
> UTF-8 string and will choke on it.

The reason we coerce the 8-bit ASCII encoding onto the source string is 
to look at the “raw” bytes.

That way, your file name should be encoded as “h%C3%B6wdy.txt”.

> I suggest that this utility may need to be revised for use with 
> Mavericks and Ruby 2.x.

If anyone know of a way to achieve the same with ruby 2 (that is 
backwards compatible) I’ll gladly update the code.