From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-12-27T20:05:44+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9 hates you and me and the encodings we rode in on so just get  used to it.

DJ Jazzy Linefeed wrote:
> compare.rb:64:in `gsub': broken UTF-8 string (ArgumentError)

Yep. Ruby 1.9 will raise exceptions in all sorts of odd places, 
dependent on both the tagged encoding of the string *and* its content at 
that point in time.

I got as far as recording 200 behaviours of String in ruby 1.9 before I 
gave up:
http://github.com/candlerb/string19/blob/master/string19.rb

The solution I use is simple: stick to ruby 1.8.x. When that branch 
dies, perhaps reia will be ready. If not I'll move to something else.

IMO, both python 3 and erlang have got the right idea when it comes to 
handling UTF8.
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