Here’s a good series of articles on how it works in Ruby: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/character_encodings http://blog.grayproductions.net/categor

Here’s a good series of articles on how it works in Ruby: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/character_encodings http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/character_encodin... Apparently Ruby 1.9 handles it well. (I wouldn’t be surprised if this had previously been linked on HN.)