From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-04-19T02:14:40+09:00
Subject: Re: iconv transfer code

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2010, at 4:22 AM, Brian Candler wrote:
> 
>> One of the joys of ruby 1.9 is that the same program run on two 
>> different machines can behave differently. That's even if the two 
>> machines have identical versions of ruby and OS *and* you are feeding in 
>> the same input data.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's true with Ruby 1.8 as well.  For example, don't 
> the encodings available to iconv vary depending on the platform?

Perhaps, but I was talking about an identical platform, O/S, and 
installation of ruby - but different configured locale (such as LANG, 
LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL environment variables)

Unless you write your ruby script defensively, it will behave 
differently dependent on those environment settings when everything else 
is identical.
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