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Bold words. I can guarantee that encoding issues will prevail. They may be of another sort, but they will never go away magically.

Certainly. But you can remove the ones you create (to reach "zero"), and patch some of the ones you don't (to reach... "-zero"?).

Anybody have more in depth details on how this was achieved? K thx bye!

Well, the first thing is like the post said: Ruby 1.9's string encoding support is much, much better. For more on this, see wycats' post here: http://yehudakatz.com/2010/05/17/encodings-unabridged/

Secondly, Rails 3 has some tricks up its sleeve, with things like the Rails Snowman: http://railssnowman.info/

Thanking you kindly sir.

Me too, this is perfect for the literature website site I'm working on.