Comment by steveklabnik

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.

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