On 8/4/06, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo / gmail.com> wrote: > . > > > > On an unrelated note, I think I discovered a bug in 1.9: > > > > ?q => 'q' # should be 113, right? > > > > Regards, > > > That's not a bug, it's a feature! Ruby 1.9 is on the path to 2.0 > which gets rid of the whole 1 byte == 1 character thing. I cannot tell you how annoying it is to work with binary data strings in C# when everything is unicode. Can the new Ruby support old 1byte = 1character strings as well? Les