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Message: [QUOTE="Robert Klemme, post: 4658746"] IMHO what 1.9 does better is the awareness of encoding. What it does worse IMHO is that binary is a special encoding of string and not a separate type (Java did it better here). Also, returning a String from String#[] with a single index does not seem the right thing to do. In this case I preferred the 1.8 solution - even better would be the Java solution to have a separate data type for characters. On one hand I can see how this all came about and class String is really versatile. On the other hand, it seems that String is growing overly complex. Maybe Ruby 2.0 should be used to clean this up and really separate handling of binary and character data. My 0.02EUR. Kind regards robert --=20 remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end [URL]http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/[/URL] [/QUOTE]