--- /dev/null
+require 'strscan'
+
+module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
+ module CoreExtensions #:nodoc:
+ module String #:nodoc:
+ # Custom string iterators
+ module Iterators
+ def self.append_features(base)
+ super unless '1.9'.respond_to?(:each_char)
+ end
+
+ # Yields a single-character string for each character in the string.
+ # When $KCODE = 'UTF8', multi-byte characters are yielded appropriately.
+ def each_char
+ scanner, char = StringScanner.new(self), /./mu
+ loop { yield(scanner.scan(char) || break) }
+ end
+ end
+ end
+ end
+end