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trying to do string concatenation with UTF-8 (arabic in this case) characters
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gistfile1.txt
# encoding: utf-8
# See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16989935/ruby-concat-strings-with-utf-8-characters-results-in-strange-ordering
arabic = "أَبْجَدِيَّة عَ"
puts "A #{arabic} end " + " Goodbye " #This is OK because it starts with A
puts "#{arabic} end " + " Goodbye " #" end" is displayed first :(
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