top | item 44508707 (no title) llamataboot | 7 months ago just dont ask about unicode discuss order hn newest neallindsay|7 months ago Unicode support in Ruby has been great since the beginning. steveklabnik|7 months ago It's a bit weirder than that, in my opinion. Ruby didn't really gain "unicode support" in the sense we mean it today until 1.9.Before that, Ruby did "support encodings" in a sense, but a lot of the APIs were byte oriented. It was awkward in general.https://web.archive.org/web/20180331093051/http://graysoftin... yxhuvud|7 months ago No, it was not great during 1.x times. But it has been fairly good since 2.0 load replies (1) 0x457|7 months ago Only if you count 1.9.2 as the beginning. What is being talked about is Unicode by default and maybe Unicode tooling (i.e. can correctly iterate over emojis and not just bytes) llamataboot|7 months ago right it was the python string transition i was talking about
neallindsay|7 months ago Unicode support in Ruby has been great since the beginning. steveklabnik|7 months ago It's a bit weirder than that, in my opinion. Ruby didn't really gain "unicode support" in the sense we mean it today until 1.9.Before that, Ruby did "support encodings" in a sense, but a lot of the APIs were byte oriented. It was awkward in general.https://web.archive.org/web/20180331093051/http://graysoftin... yxhuvud|7 months ago No, it was not great during 1.x times. But it has been fairly good since 2.0 load replies (1) 0x457|7 months ago Only if you count 1.9.2 as the beginning. What is being talked about is Unicode by default and maybe Unicode tooling (i.e. can correctly iterate over emojis and not just bytes) llamataboot|7 months ago right it was the python string transition i was talking about
steveklabnik|7 months ago It's a bit weirder than that, in my opinion. Ruby didn't really gain "unicode support" in the sense we mean it today until 1.9.Before that, Ruby did "support encodings" in a sense, but a lot of the APIs were byte oriented. It was awkward in general.https://web.archive.org/web/20180331093051/http://graysoftin...
yxhuvud|7 months ago No, it was not great during 1.x times. But it has been fairly good since 2.0 load replies (1)
0x457|7 months ago Only if you count 1.9.2 as the beginning. What is being talked about is Unicode by default and maybe Unicode tooling (i.e. can correctly iterate over emojis and not just bytes)
neallindsay|7 months ago
steveklabnik|7 months ago
Before that, Ruby did "support encodings" in a sense, but a lot of the APIs were byte oriented. It was awkward in general.
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