Dive Into Python 3: Strings. The new Python book is really great, the Strings chapter is a must-read for all programmers. Manfred (edit) ¶

What’s New In Python 3.0: Text Vs. Data Instead Of Unicode Vs. 8-bit. Providing distinct types for text and (binary) data is much better than having both ‘Unicode’ strings and byte strings. IMHO this is one thing where Python now is clearly better than Ruby. Thijs (edit) ¶

Artweb design: Finally. Ruby on Rails gets internationalized. Nice pragmatic i18n/l10n solution. Thijs (edit) ¶

Official Google Blog: Moving to Unicode 5.1. “Just last December there was an interesting milestone on the web. For the first time, we found that Unicode [UTF-8] was the most frequent encoding found on web pages” Makes me happy. Thijs (edit) ¶

The Camping Episode II. Our own Manfred talks about his HTTP authentication library for Camping and his work on ActiveSupport::MultiByte. Thijs (edit) ¶