From: Edward Middleton <emiddleton@...>
Date: 2009-12-28T10:30:31+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9 hates you and me and the encodings we rode in on so just get  used to it.

Brian Candler wrote:
> 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.
>   

If you don't arbitrarily set the encoding, when will this be a problem?

Edward