Truncate a UTF-8 string at character boundary in Ruby 1.8
Language: Ruby
# For more on $KCODE, see
# http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/the_kcode_variable_and_jcode_library
$KCODE = 'u'
def truncate(str, length)
str.match(/.{0,#{length}}/m).to_s
end
p truncate("åéîøü", 3) # => "åéî"
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