Rails - Apr 2006 - upcase special chars (åäöü...)?

Hey guys

How do you upcase the special characters (????)?
I use latin-1 and not utf-8.


How did you solve this problem? (nice ruby way or ugly hack doesnt 
matter)

Daniel

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Ok, this is what I have come up with so far... pretty ugly, but it 
works.

def myupcase(stringtoupper)
 stringtoupper.upcase.gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'')
end


//Daniel

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> Ok, this is what I have come up with so far... pretty ugly, but it
> works.
>
> def myupcase(stringtoupper)
>stringtoupper.upcase.gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'')
> end
How about:

stringtoupper.upcase.tr(''??????'',''??????'')


Regards,
Rimantas
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Hello,
> Ok, this is what I have come up with so far... pretty ugly, but it
> works.
>
> def myupcase(stringtoupper)
> 
stringtoupper.upcase.gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'')
> end
In this case, you can use String#tr :

stringtoupper.upcase.tr(''??????'', ''??????'')

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Daniel wrote the following on 19.04.2006 13:33 :
>Ok, this is what I have come up with so far... pretty ugly, but it 
>works.
>
>def myupcase(stringtoupper)
>
stringtoupper.upcase.gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'').gsub(''?'',''?'')
>end
>
>
>//Daniel
>
>  
>
If you don''t need the old upcase behaviour, you can put the following 
where needed (probably in lib/string_overload.rb and
''require''d in
application.rb and/or application_helper.rb):

class String
    alias_method :old_upcase, :upcase
    def upcase
       self.old_upcase.tr(''??????'',
''??????'')
    end
end