From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-11T21:14:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Which encoding causes fewest problems in Ruby 1.8.2?

Hi,

In message "Re: Which encoding causes fewest problems in Ruby 1.8.2?"
    on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:12:45 +0900, Jim Smith <nospam@nospam.lan> writes:

|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

String and Regexp handles all of them for most of the cases.  But
upper/lower case handling for non ASCII alphabets are not supported.
Use -Ku for UTF-8 and -Kn for ISO-8859-*.

							matz.