Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby stable branch is....1.9?"
    on Fri, 4 Aug 2006 21:59:34 +0900, "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen / gmail.com> writes:

|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?

Yes, Ruby 2.0 will support "binary" encoding as well as Unicode.

							matz.