Articles in Character Encodings

What Ruby 1.9 Gives Us

A look at some new possibilities we have thanks to the character encoding savvy nature of Ruby 1.9…

Miscellaneous M17n Details

This post covers various side details of the new encoding engine. It's kind of a grab bag of topics that you should also know about when writing character encoding savvy code…

Ruby 1.9's Three Default Encodings

Now that we've covered String, we need to talk about how String's get their initial Encoding…

Ruby 1.9's String

Ruby 1.9's String class has changed quite a bit to support the new character encoding engine. Let me show you what's different and how to work with the new features…

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…