Articles in Character Encodings

Ruby 1.8 Character Encoding Flaws

Let's take a quick look at what's not working Ruby 1.8's character encoding support so we can better understand where all of these Ruby 1.9 changes are coming from…

Encoding Conversion With iconv

This article covers the Ruby 1.8 system of converting between character encodings…

The $KCODE Variable and jcode Library

Details on how to globally change the encoding for Ruby 1.8 as well as coverage for a simple character encoding helper library…

Bytes and Characters in Ruby 1.8

This is a look at the key features of Ruby 1.8's character encoding support…

General Encoding Strategies

This is an attempt to establish general encoding strategies…

The Unicode Character Set and Encodings

An in depth study of the largest character set in modern usage and how it can meet your needs…

What is a Character Encoding?

Building a workable definition of character encodings and trying to give practical examples of how they affect us…

Understanding M17n

This post lays out my plans to turn all of my readers into character encoding experts…