Ruby seems really cool, but in some places their support base is so anti-Perl, I kinda hesitate to learn it :-) ( Actually, I would start learning once the american o'reilly comes up with a good book to read... I find Japanese technical books to be harder to understand )

Prsonally, I haven't had much problem with using regexp on Japanese characters. Of course, the approach I take is

• Convert to euc
• write down the expression that I want to use
• use unpack( "H*", $string ) to find the byte values for the Japanese portion of my regex
• use the byte values to match

Yes, it's kind of annoying, and yes, it's hackish approach, but it works for me.

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