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Wednesday, October 8 2008

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How To Use Unicode Strings

While you can’t use Unicode strings with ruby, you can store UTF-8 encoded data in your 8-bit strings. However some of the String methods assume a single byte encoding and therefore return wrong results. Besides, without proper settings you will get output and input as sequences of bytes and you might get parse errors in literals.

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