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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: rubi18</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/rubi18.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2007-12-28T19:05:01+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Quoting Sam Ruby</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/28/sam/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-12-28T19:05:01+00:00</published><updated>2007-12-28T19:05:01+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/28/sam/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;blockquote cite="http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/12/28/3-1-2"&gt;&lt;p&gt;I definitely like Python 3K's Unicode support better [...] In fact, I think I prefer Ruby 1.8's non-support for Unicode over Ruby 1.9's "support". The problem is one that is all to familiar to Python programmers. You can have a fully unit tested library and have somebody pass you a bad string, and you will fall over.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="cite"&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/12/28/3-1-2"&gt;Sam Ruby&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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