From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2007-08-31T17:55:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Encodings of string literals; explicit codepoint escapes?

On 8/31/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

>   \N{name}     -> single character by name
>
> But you need to require additional library to get:
>
>   * characters from Unicode name

Won't keeping all Unicode character's name in memory be very, very expensive?