# Re: unicode in ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-unicode-in-ruby/78628>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 8, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-unicode-in-ruby/78628 "2006-03-08T19:30:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-unicode-in-ruby/78628/1 "2006-03-08T19:30:32Z")

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Have you tried ruby-oniguruma  
\_[サービス終了のお知らせ](http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/_)  
([http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/](http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/)) ?

Best regards,

Axel

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-unicode-in-ruby/78628/2 "2006-03-08T19:48:55Z")

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On 3/8/06, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Have you tried ruby-oniguruma \_[http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/\_](http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/_)  
> ([サービス終了のお知らせ](http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/)) ?

No. I want an unicode string processing library, not an unicode regexp  
library. Currently I am working on a program that needs to work with  
Czech text.  
Unicode is not supported in current ruby (1.8), and I can work around  
that by using iso-8859-2. I choose the workaround because I need ease  
of installation, and the latin2 encoding is still widely used.  
With ruby 2 onigurama should be part of the interpreter. But it still  
does not give me downcase in utf-8. At least it should be possible to  
split a string into characters using Onigurama, and process the  
characters myself.

Thanks

Michal

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