Bug#676114: Ruby help needed (Was: Bug#676114: wordnet: FTBFS: debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:465: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII))

[Dmitry E. Oboukhov]

> Per Andersson escreveu isso aí:
>> Please see the attached patch and try if it works.

> Heh, except that you missed other usages of the same pattern. Andreas,
> please try the attached patch.

> As Per explained, the problem is that in Ruby 1.8, a string is an array
> of bytes, so str[0] returns a number (the byte at position 0).  Ruby 1.9
> is fully encoding-aware, so a string is an array of characters and
> str[0] returns a string that is the first *character* in str.

> What I did was replacing the occurrences of str[0] with str.bytes.first
> to explicitly request the first *byte* in str.

> The resulting output when run with Ruby 1.9 is pretty much the same as
> the original version generates when run by Ruby 1.8, *except* for the
> ordering between lowercase and lowercase letters. Maybe that is due to
> some other detail, but understanding that script completely is too much
> for me. :)

> If that's not acceptable, you can also (at least for Wheezy) run the
> script from debian/rules with `ruby1.8` instead of `ruby` and build
> depend on ruby1.8 explicitly.


Hi, Andreas and the other people!

I see you have already patched the script. Sorry for my later
response: I'm very busy these days: I'm trying to change my job.
I will able to do something in week or two. Please don't drop packages
in the time :)

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