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Re:Ruby 1.9 made me remember how I hate the concept of encod... by crazydiamond on Thursday May 13, 2010 @10:25AM (#1344325)
I really can't recall the details but there are still some Asian character sets (Chinese iirc) that are not fully covered. The "two-way conversion" fails. And this was with UTF-16 iirc.
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