Sometimes. Ruby 1.8 -> 1.9 was harsh. Forced every string to have an encoding and was absolutely merciless about it; UTF-8 encoding errors everywhere. In a lan

Sometimes. Ruby 1.8 -> 1.9 was harsh. Forced every string to have an encoding and was absolutely merciless about it; UTF-8 encoding errors everywhere. In a language where so many things are fast and loose, it seemed like an odd decision, but I agree with it.