From 1f62c6d09f44d080a508e18ec2c44c0adb61b76e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: RAHUL CHAUDHARI Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:17:20 +0530 Subject: Fixed typos in active_support_core_extensions.textile --- railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'railties/guides/source') diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile index addf5f78be..ecc25c4f1c 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile @@ -1760,7 +1760,7 @@ h4(#string-conversions). Conversions h5. +ord+ -Ruby 1.9 defines +ord+ to be the codepoint of the first character of the receiver. Active Support backports +ord+ for single-byte encondings like ASCII or ISO-8859-1 in Ruby 1.8: +Ruby 1.9 defines +ord+ to be the codepoint of the first character of the receiver. Active Support backports +ord+ for single-byte encodings like ASCII or ISO-8859-1 in Ruby 1.8: "a".ord # => 97 @@ -1774,7 +1774,7 @@ In Ruby 1.8 +ord+ doesn't work in general in UTF8 strings, use the multibyte sup "à".mb_chars.ord # => 224, in UTF8 -Note that the 224 is different in both examples. In ISO-8859-1 "à" is represented as a single byte, 224. Its single-character representattion in UTF8 has two bytes, namely 195 and 160, but its Unicode codepoint is 224. If we call +ord+ on the UTF8 string "à" the return value will be 195 in Ruby 1.8. That is not an error, because UTF8 is unsupported, the call itself would be bogus. +Note that the 224 is different in both examples. In ISO-8859-1 "à" is represented as a single byte, 224. Its single-character representation in UTF8 has two bytes, namely 195 and 160, but its Unicode codepoint is 224. If we call +ord+ on the UTF8 string "à" the return value will be 195 in Ruby 1.8. That is not an error, because UTF8 is unsupported, the call itself would be bogus. INFO: +ord+ is equivalent to +getbyte(0)+. -- cgit v1.2.3