From: Curt Sampson <cjs@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T00:11:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Investigating Ruby - key limitations ?

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> As far as I know, physical string representation in Perl/Python/Java
> is only UTF (8 or 16). As you've stated, they can read/write strings
> in any encoding but they are converted to/from Unicode at the surface.
> Correct me if I'm wrong.

For Java, at least, you are wrong. A Java String object is a sequence of
16-bit-wide characters; some library routines assume these to be encoded
in UTF-16, but you can process, e.g., Shift-JIS without any translation
by declaring all input and output encodings to be ISO-8859-1 (which is
"transparent" for 8-bit characters).

cjs
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