Ruby 1.8.6 and Unicode

Using Ruby 1.8.6 (p111)

In irb

$KCODE='u'
'aébvHögtåwHÅFuG'.scan(/./u)

nicely yields

 ["a", "é", "b", "v", "H", "ö", "g", "t", "å", "w", "H", "Å", "F", "u", "G"]

and

 'aébvHögtåwHÅFuG'.scan(/[\x00-\x7F]/u).join('')

neatly removes all non-ASCII characters.

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