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		unwind on Jan 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 character... You probably mean "three bytes in UTF-8", talking about "UTF-8 characters" is really confusing.

microtherion on Jan 5, 2012 [–]

You're absolutely right, I should have said "three bytes" or "three octets".

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