How could I downcase a non-English string in Ruby on Rails 3 ?
str = "Привет" # Russian
puts str[0].ord # => 1055
str.downcase!
puts str[0].ord # => 1055 (Should be 1087)
I want it to work in Ruby 1.8.7 as well as Ruby 1.9.2.
str = "Привет"
str.mb_chars.downcase.to_s
#=> "привет"