Rails - May 2009 - Detecting Characters other the ASCII (Other than English)

Dear all
I kinda need help on a project I''m working on; and I''m stuck
on the
part were I have to detect any Unicode character in the text file;
will regular expressions "\w" work ?
thnx in advance

Ibrahim Mokdad wrote:
> Dear all
> I kinda need help on a project I''m working on; and I''m
stuck on the
> part were I have to detect any Unicode character in the text file;
> will regular expressions "\w" work ?
> thnx in advance
Why not . (period) in a regular expression?  That should do what you 
want.

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
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marnen-sbuyVjPbboAdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
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No /w will not work. And . (period) will not work either.
here is asdjflaw日本erjocd some text
the japanese within this text looks like this \346\227\245\346\234\254
in unicode.
it would not be matched by /w (letter or number set) or . (any
character).
each of the \ddd sets in the unicode character would be matched by a .
(period)

I am sure someone has a solution for this, but it is not me.

unicode geniuses HEEEEELLLLLP ください。
tim


On May 25, 9:27 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-
s.net> wrote:
> Ibrahim Mokdad wrote:
> > Dear all
> > I kinda need help on a project I''m working on; and
I''m stuck on the
> > part were I have to detect any Unicode character in the text file;
> > will regular expressions "\w" work ?
> > thnx in advance
>
> Why not . (period) in a regular expression?  That should do what you
> want.
>
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org
> mar...-sbuyVjPbboAdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.