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29th December 2007 - Link Blog

Sam Ruby: Ruby 1.9 Strings - Updated. A follow up to yesterday’s post: Sam’s principle complaints about Ruby 1.9’s character encoding support were down to a bug which has now been fixed.

Posted 29th December 2007 at 7:34 pm

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