remove support for ruby 1.8 in AS String extensions

activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb

@@ -89,9 +89,6 @@ class Hash
 end
 
 class String
-  # 0x3000: fullwidth whitespace
-  NON_WHITESPACE_REGEXP = %r![^\s#{[0x3000].pack("U")}]!
-
   # A string is blank if it's empty or contains whitespaces only:
   #
   #   "".blank?                 # => true
@@ -100,12 +97,7 @@ class String
   #   " something here ".blank? # => false
   #
   def blank?
-    # 1.8 does not takes [:space:] properly
-    if encoding_aware?
     self !~ /[^[:space:]]/
-    else
-      self !~ NON_WHITESPACE_REGEXP
-    end
   end
 end
 

activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb

@@ -1,37 +1,8 @@
-# encoding: utf-8
 require 'date'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/time/publicize_conversion_methods'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/time/calculations'
 
 class String
-  # Returns the codepoint of the first character of the string, assuming a
-  # single-byte character encoding:
-  #
-  #   "a".ord # => 97
-  #   "à".ord # => 224, in ISO-8859-1
-  #
-  # This method is defined in Ruby 1.8 for Ruby 1.9 forward compatibility on
-  # these character encodings.
-  #
-  # <tt>ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Chars#ord</tt> is forward compatible with
-  # Ruby 1.9 on UTF8 strings:
-  #
-  #   "a".mb_chars.ord # => 97
-  #   "à".mb_chars.ord # => 224, in UTF8
-  #
-  # Note that the 224 is different in both examples. In ISO-8859-1 "à" is
-  # represented as a single byte, 224. In UTF8 it is represented with two
-  # bytes, namely 195 and 160, but its Unicode codepoint is 224. If we
-  # call +ord+ on the UTF8 string "à" the return value will be 195. That is
-  # not an error, because UTF8 is unsupported, the call itself would be
-  # bogus.
-  def ord
-    self[0]
-  end unless method_defined?(:ord)
-
-  # +getbyte+ backport from Ruby 1.9
-  alias_method :getbyte, :[] unless method_defined?(:getbyte)
-
   # Form can be either :utc (default) or :local.
   def to_time(form = :utc)
     return nil if self.blank?