Steven D'Aprano: > Do any other languages have any equivalent to this ebtyes type? The String type in Ruby 1.9 is a byte string with an encoding attribute. Most online Ruby documentation is for 1.8 but the API can be examined here: http://ruby-doc.org/ruby-1.9/index.html Here's something more explanatory: http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/ruby_19s_string My view is that this actually makes things much more complex by making encoding combination an n*n problem (where n is the number of encodings) rather an n sized problem when you have a single core string type Neil
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