From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2009-09-03T15:42:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:25312] Re: [Feature #2034] Consider the ICU Library for 	Improving and Expanding Unicode Support

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 03:37, Run Paint Run Run<redmine@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> If ICU is unfeasible, I'd appreciate understanding why.

It converts everything to UTF-16 internally.