From: Oliver Schad Date: 2010-11-24T23:25:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9 Michael Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Oliver Schad > 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 ? | LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF8 ruby -pe '$_[1,0] = "?"' > ?? > iota ~ % echo ? | LC_ALL=C ruby -pe '$_[1,0] = "?"' > -e:1: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) > -e:1: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) So working with strings in ruby v1.9 is not supported, right? Regards Oli -- Man darf ruhig intelligent sein, man muss sich nur zu helfen wissen