Ruby 1.9: how can I properly upcase & downcase multibyte strings?

Question

So matz made the decision to keep upcase and downcase limited to /[A-Z]/i in ruby 1.9.1.

ActiveSupport::Multibyte has long had great i18n case jiggering in ruby 1.8.x via String#mb_chars.

However, when tried under ruby 1.9.1, it doesn't seem to work. Here's a simple test script I wrote, along with the output I'm getting:

$ cat test.rb
# encoding: UTF-8

puts("@ #{RUBY_VERSION} " + (__ENCODING__ rescue $KCODE).to_s)
sd, su = "Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn", "IÑTËRNÂTIÔNÀLIZÆTIØN"
def ps(u, d, k); puts "%-30s:  %24s / %-24s" % [k, u, d] end
ps sd.upcase, su.downcase, "Plain ruby"

require 'rubygems'; require 'active_support'
ps sd.upcase, su.downcase, "With active_support"
ps sd.mb_chars.upcase.to_s, su.mb_chars.downcase.to_s, "With active_support mb_chars"

$ ruby -KU test.rb
@ 1.8.7 UTF8
Plain ruby                    :  IñTëRNâTIôNàLIZæTIøN / iÑtËrnÂtiÔnÀlizÆtiØn
With active_support           :  IñTëRNâTIôNàLIZæTIøN / iÑtËrnÂtiÔnÀlizÆtiØn
With active_support mb_chars  :  IÑTËRNÂTIÔNÀLIZÆTIØN / iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn

$ ruby1.9 test.rb
@ 1.9.1 UTF-8
Plain ruby                    :      IñTëRNâTIôNàLIZæTIøN / iÑtËrnÂtiÔnÀlizÆtiØn
With active_support           :      IñTëRNâTIôNàLIZæTIøN / iÑtËrnÂtiÔnÀlizÆtiØn
With active_support mb_chars  :      IñTëRNâTIôNàLIZæTIøN / iÑtËrnÂtiÔnÀlizÆtiØn

So, how do I get internationalized upcase and downcase with ruby 1.9.1?

update

I should add that I also tested with ActiveSupport from the current master, 2-3-* and 3-0-unstable rails branches at GitHub. Same results.

Answer 1

for anybody coming from Google by ruby upcase utf8:

> "your problem chars here çöğıü Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn".mb_chars.upcase.to_s
=> "YOUR PROBLEM CHARS HERE ÇÖĞIÜ IÑTËRNÂTIÔNÀLIZÆTIØN"

solution is to use mb_chars.

Documentation:

• https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/activesupport/String#mb_chars-instance_method
• https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Multibyte/Chars.html