The 9th Bit: Encodings in Ruby 1.9

By Norman Clarke

I hope you enjoyed my presentation at RubyConf Brazil 2010!

This repository has my slides, some code demos you can run, and some links to resources to get more information on encodings and Ruby.

You can also see the slides on Slideshare.

Comments? Feel free to send me an email at [email protected].

Encoding Resources

Basic Information

• Fabio Akita - Convertendo meu Banco de Latin1 para UTF-8
• Ilya Grigorik - Secure UTF-8 Input in Rails
• Yehuda Katz - Encodings, Unabridged

More Advanced

• James Edward Grey II - Understanding M17N
• Yui Naruse - The Design and Implementation of Ruby M17N
• Ben Peterson - Unicode in Japan
• Brian Candler - String19
• Otfried Chong - Han Unification in Unicode
• Ken Lundie - CJKV Information Processing (Book)

Libraries

• Unicode
• Babosa