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2007

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.

# 29th December 2007, 7:34 pm / ruby19, sam-ruby, unicode

I definitely like Python 3K's Unicode support better [...] In fact, I think I prefer Ruby 1.8's non-support for Unicode over Ruby 1.9's "support". The problem is one that is all to familiar to Python programmers. You can have a fully unit tested library and have somebody pass you a bad string, and you will fall over.

Sam Ruby

# 28th December 2007, 7:05 pm / python, rubi18, ruby, ruby19, sam-ruby, unicode, unittesting