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";
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video
Euruko 2010 Speakers Showcase:
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day2
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