From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2011-07-24T06:09:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:38431] Re: [Backport87 - Feature #4996] About 1.8.7 EOL

Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm a lone voice in the wilderness

You're not alone, I don't like the 1.9 encoding system, either; but
I primarily deal with binary data so I don't usually need to care about it
other than setting binmode on $std{in,out,err}

-- 
Eric Wong