From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-04-24T06:11:12+09:00
Subject: Re: String#chop chops last byte, not char

Evgeni Belin wrote:
> This is happening in ruby 1.8.6:

In Ruby 1.8.6, character == byte basically everywhere. You'll need to 
use a regex to remove the last character safely (UTF-8).

- Charlie