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

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://graysoftinc.com/character-encodings/bytes-and-characters-in-ruby-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20180331093051/http://graysoftin...