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Demonstration of Ruby String encoding doing something unexpected with ASCII text.
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ruby_string_encoding.txt
$ stat --printf="%s\n" README.rdoc
10576
$ perl -le 'print length do { local(@ARGV, $/)="README.rdoc"; <> };'
10576
$ ruby -e 'p File.read("README.rdoc").length'
10555
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