From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2010-11-24T22:00:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Oliver Schad
<spam.entfernen.und.bring.gefaelligst.ein.bier.mit@oschad.de> wrote:
> Brian Candler wrote:
>
>> And just to give some balance: the biggest reason not to use 1.9 is
>> because of the incredible complexity which has been added to the
>> String class, and the ability it gives you to make programs which
>> crash under unexpected circumstances.
>
> Sounds great. ;-) Can somebody else confirm this?

iota ~ % echo ʘ | LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF8 ruby -pe '$_[1,0] = "ʘ"'
ʘʘ
iota ~ % echo ʘ | LC_ALL=C ruby -pe '$_[1,0] = "ʘ"'
-e:1: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
-e:1: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)

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Michael Fellinger
CTO, The Rubyists, LLC