From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-08-25T17:54:20+09:00
Subject: Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9

Hi,

In message "Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9"
    on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:22:32 +0900, "Vincent Isambart" <vincent.isambart@gmail.com> writes:

|String#size does work fine. The problem comes from the fact that the
|VM has a length instruction that has its own implementation of the
|String length. A quick fix was to remove it as does the patch below.
|An other way to fix would be to reimplement it correctly using the
|encoding aware methods.

Thank you for the report and fix.  I guess we have much left before
the complete implementation.  Feel free for suggestions, proposals and
bug fixes.

							matz.