From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2006-08-04T23:50:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby stable branch is....1.9? Hi, In message "Re: Ruby stable branch is....1.9?" on Fri, 4 Aug 2006 21:59:34 +0900, "Leslie Viljoen" writes: |I cannot tell you how annoying it is to work with binary data strings |in C# when everything is unicode. Can the new Ruby support old 1byte = |1character strings as well? Yes, Ruby 2.0 will support "binary" encoding as well as Unicode. matz.