From: Warren Brown <WBrown@...>
Date: 2004-08-13T04:23:48+09:00
Subject: Re: How about a String#chars method?

Ara,

> something like this
>
>   ~ > cat b.rb
>   class String
>     def chars width = 1
>       unpack "a#{ width }" *  (size / width + (size % width == 0 ? 0 :
1))
>     end
>   end

    I wish it were that easy, but multi-byte character sets are not
always fixed-width.  For example, UTF-8 characters can be anywhere from
one byte to (theoretically) six bytes long.  So the multi-byte handling
would have to be a little more sophisticated.

    :o(

    - Warren Brown