From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2005-01-16T03:36:39+09:00 Subject: Re: Unicode/multibyte string support in Ruby1.9/Ruby summary? Hi, In message "Re: Unicode/multibyte string support in Ruby1.9/Ruby summary?" on Sun, 16 Jan 2005 02:58:20 +0900, ts writes: |F> AFAIK just the raw bytes as before. (And UTF8 and so on can use multiple |F> bytes for one character.) Note that the RString record of Ruby will get |F> a new field for the encoding. | | Are you sure ? or I've not understood what you are trying to say. He's right, except that the encoding will be stored using the FL_USER flags or an instance variable of the string. matz.