Euruko 2010 Speakers Showcase: transcripts: day1, day2, thanks to: @cypher
Character encoding in Ruby 1.9
Florian Gilcher
- A talk that shine a light over character encoding features in Ruby 1.9;
- Ruby 1.9 supports all encodings but with a cost: String is not Enumerable anymore;
- IO Objects have two encodings: external_encoding e internal_encoding;
- On encodings: Americans: "I don't want to know"; Japanese: "How can you not know?!"; Europeans: "Unicode solves everything";