[#10193] String.ord — David Flanagan <david@...>

Hi,

41 messages 2007/02/05
[#10197] Re: String.ord — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/02/06

Hi,

[#10198] Re: String.ord — David Flanagan <david@...> 2007/02/06

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#10199] Re: String.ord — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2007/02/06

David Flanagan wrote:

[#10200] Re: String.ord — David Flanagan <david@...> 2007/02/06

Daniel Berger wrote:

[#10208] Re: String.ord — "Nikolai Weibull" <now@...> 2007/02/06

On 2/6/07, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> wrote:

[#10213] Re: String.ord — David Flanagan <david@...> 2007/02/06

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

[#10215] Re: String.ord — "Nikolai Weibull" <now@...> 2007/02/06

On 2/6/07, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> wrote:

[#10216] Re: String.ord — David Flanagan <david@...> 2007/02/07

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

[#10288] Socket library should support abstract unix sockets — <noreply@...>

Bugs item #8597, was opened at 2007-02-13 16:10

12 messages 2007/02/13

[#10321] File.basename fails on Windows root paths — <noreply@...>

Bugs item #8676, was opened at 2007-02-15 10:09

11 messages 2007/02/15

[#10323] Trouble with xmlrpc — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

Some of the Ruby code used by TextMate makes use of xmlrpc/

31 messages 2007/02/15
[#10324] Re: Trouble with xmlrpc — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...> 2007/02/15

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[#10326] Re: Trouble with xmlrpc — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/02/15

On Feb 15, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Berger, Daniel wrote:

[#10342] Re: Trouble with xmlrpc — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/02/16

While I am complaining about xmlrpc, we have another issue. It's

[#10343] Re: Trouble with xmlrpc — Alex Young <alex@...> 2007/02/16

James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#10344] Re: Trouble with xmlrpc — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/02/16

On Feb 16, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Alex Young wrote:

Re: String.ord

From: David Flanagan <david@...>
Date: 2007-02-07 20:45:09 UTC
List: ruby-core #10233
Ola Bini wrote:
> Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>> On 2/7/07, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> wrote:
>> Well, yes, that would make some sense.  But as I see it a
>> codepoint/character would have to have an encoding and we seem to be
>> leaving the realm of Fixnums again.  I was most probably mistaken
>> about the subclassing of Fixnum...
> 
> Why should a codepoint/character have an encoding? That doesn't make 
> sense. Of course, it would be nice to know what space the codepoint 
> points into (Unicode or something else), but regardless of encoding a 
> Unicode codepoint should be equal to the same codepaint, even if that 
> character came from a string with a difference Unicode encoding.
> 

I think that Nikolai and I are using "encoding" to mean "encoding + 
coded character set"   A codepoint by itself doesn't make sense unless 
you know if it is a Unicode or EUC or JIS or whatever.

Or, perhaps a codepoint is just a number and a character is a codepoint 
plus a charset?

	David

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