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I have the following line of code in my Ruby on Rails app, which checks whether the given string contains Korean characters or not:
isKorean = !/\p{Hangul}/.match(word).nil?
It works perfectly in the console, but raises a syntax error for the actual app:
invalid character property name {Hangul}: /\p{Hangul}/
What am I missing and how can I get it to work?
This is a character encoding issue, you need to add:
to the top of the Ruby file you’re using that regex in. You can probably use any encoding that the character class you’re using exists in instead of UTF-8 if you wish. Note that in Ruby 2.0, UTF-8 is now the default, so this is not needed in Ruby 2.0+.
This is known as a “magic comment”. You can and should read more about encoding in Ruby 1.9. Note that encoding in Rails views is handled automatically by
config.encoding(set to UTF-8 by default inconfig/application.rb.It was likely working in the console because your terminal is set to use UTF-8 already.