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 =={{header|Ruby}}==
-Ruby has hardly any specific support for Unicode; however since it focuses on encodings (exactly 100 encodings are supported in Ruby 2.1.0) it includes pretty much all known Unicode Transformation Formats, including UTF-8 which is the default encoding since 2.1.0 .
+Ruby focuses on encodings (exactly 100 encodings are supported in Ruby 2.1.0). It includes pretty much all known Unicode Transformation Formats, including UTF-8 which is the default encoding since 2.1.0 .
-Most support is to be found in the Regexp engine, for instance /\p{Sc}/ matches everything from the Symbol: Currency category;  \p{} matches a character’s Unicode script, like /\p{Linear_B}/.
+Most Unicode support is to be found in the Regexp engine, for instance /\p{Sc}/ matches everything from the Symbol: Currency category;  \p{} matches a character’s Unicode script, like /\p{Linear_B}/.
 Unicode strings are no problem:
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+Since Ruby 2.4 Ruby strings have full Unicode case mapping.
-The unicode gem (an external library) is for difficult things like lowercase\uppercase outside the ASCII region.
 =={{header|Scala}}==