Weird character downcasing issue

Ruby JRuby
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Hi guys.

Anyone knows why if I try this:

“Ö”.downcase

I get this:

=> “\303\226”

In pure Java:

“Ö”.toLowerCase()

Yields the correct result.

Maurício Linhares
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Hi Maurício,
those are two different methods and two different objects:

java.lang.String.toLowerCase()
and
ruby String.donwcase

As far as i know jruby should be consistent with ruby but not with java
i think.
What You can try is:

java.lang.String(“Ö”).toLowerCase() in jruby,
but i was having some issues with that some time ago, You can search
the list for it.

Best greetings,
Pawe³ Wielgus.

2009/1/23 Maurício Linhares [email protected]:

In pure Java:
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2009/1/23 Maurício Linhares [email protected]:

I guessed that even being two different methods, both should work the
same way, as both have the same “idea”.

But yes, MRI yields the same result, it just doesn’t feel right.

Is this fixed on 1.9? If run JRuby with 1.9 would it work as expected?

Both, Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9, upcase/downcase by definition
recognize only ASCII characters. I’ve written a library (Ruby 1.9 only!)
that provides full upcase/downcase and other Unicode algorithms:
http://unicode-utils.rubyforge.org/

JRuby 1.1.6 has not enough 1.9 support for it to work though.

Stefan

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I guessed that even being two different methods, both should work the
same way, as both have the same “idea”.

But yes, MRI yields the same result, it just doesn’t feel right.

Is this fixed on 1.9? If run JRuby with 1.9 would it work as expected?

Maurício Linhares
http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http://blog.codevader.com/
(en)

2009/1/23 Pawe³ Wielgus [email protected]:

java.lang.String(“Ö”).toLowerCase() in jruby,
but i was having some issues with that some time ago, You can search
the list for it.

Best greetings,
Pawe³ Wielgus.

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Stefan L. wrote:

Both, Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9, upcase/downcase by definition
recognize only ASCII characters. I’ve written a library (Ruby 1.9 only!)
that provides full upcase/downcase and other Unicode algorithms:
http://unicode-utils.rubyforge.org/

JRuby 1.1.6 has not enough 1.9 support for it to work though.

Hopefully we will soon. Until then the suggestion about
java.lang.String.new(“Ö”).toLowerCase() is certainly an option.

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