Posted in r/github by u/MathChief • 75 points and 4 comments

I wrote somewhat extensively about the problem of encodings in Ruby 1.9 in
general last week.

For those who didn't read that post, let me start with a quick refresher.

What's an Encoding?
An encoding specifies how to take a list of characters (such as "hello")…

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The unreasonable effectiveness of doing nothing.