From: Stefan Schmidt <Stefan.Schmidt@...>
Date: 2008-07-11T07:00:20+09:00
Subject: Re: character-encodings gem with Ruby 1.9

> > I tried to install Nikolai Weibull's Ruby Character Encodings  
> > Library [1] with Ruby 1.9, but didn't succeed.
> 
> Do you know that 1.9 has excellent built-in support for character  
> encodings?

Yes, but String#upcase/downcase doesn't work for non-ascii strings.

Stefan