From: Jim Smith <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-06-11T10:12:45+09:00
Subject: Which encoding causes fewest problems in Ruby 1.8.2?

I posted a similar question in the rails group but this is more specific 
to ruby 1.8.2.

I read that ruby has problems with multibyte charsets.  And I read that 
there might be some problems with ISO-8859-15 related to REXML.  And I 
read that regex might have problems with ISO-8859-1.

Given the above problems (or rumors), which encoding is recommended for 
use with ruby 1.8.2?

UTF-8
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-15

I'm certain both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-15 will support all the characters 
I'll ever use.  And ISO-8859-1 only lacks a couple characters I might 
use on very rare occassions so I'm just looking for a charset that will 
cause fewest problems with Ruby.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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