Strings were revamped in Ruby 1.9 to have more robust support of Unicode and other encodings. One of the side effects is that both the semantics and internal re

Strings were revamped in Ruby 1.9 to have more robust support of Unicode and other encodings. One of the side effects is that both the semantics and internal representation of Strings changed such that treating a String object as an Enumerable no longer made sense. There's a good treatment of this here: http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/ruby_19s_string http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/ruby_19s_string