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How does Ruby struggle with unicode?


This is from a couple of weeks ago, there's a few things broken still, but what languages do have full support out of the box?

http://blog.honeybadger.io/ruby-s-unicode-support/



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Well, for one, I can't even write a portable unicode string literal.

> "\xAA".split ''

That works on a platform where my platform is UTF-32, but not one where it is UTF-8.




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