> File.read("test.txt").force_encoding("UTF-16LE").split("\n")
>
> This script returns an error (Encoding::CompatibilityError) even with
> declaring char code at the beginning or the encoding of the file being
> UTF-16LE.
MacRuby completely ignores the encoding of the file (it always reads
sour
Hi Vincent,
I used force_encode for a testing purpose only, which was suggested somewhere.
Using String#encode introduces another problem, so I don't want to use it in my
app. It seems to be that I have to add String#encode to all the String objects
used with the text read from a file. This
Hi,
> Indeed, String#[] will now perform slower on UTF8 non-ascii strings, because
> computing the character index cannot be done in constant time anymore.
> I don't believe this can be improved using the optimization we implemented
> for #gsub and #scan. Maybe 1.9.2 has a better optimization, I w
Hi Yasu,
Indeed, String#[] will now perform slower on UTF8 non-ascii strings, because
computing the character index cannot be done in constant time anymore.
I don't believe this can be improved using the optimization we implemented for
#gsub and #scan. Maybe 1.9.2 has a better optimization, I w
Hi,
I found another String performance issue, which is different from #1077. I
used the same 8092 words English text in UTF-8 used in #1077.
The latest nightly (2011/01/16) is about 6 times slower than MacRuby 0.8, which
was as fast as 1.9.2.
I'm just wondering if I should file this for 0.9
