From: ts Date: 2001-06-29T02:02:18+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:17019] Re: RCR for the String class >>>>> "S" == Sean Russell writes: S> implementation details. You know that a String is just an array of integers S> with the ASCII encoding, and you have do deal with this fact through the API. This is not true with ruby_m17n pigeon% cat b.rb #!./ruby a = String.new("辿c辿", "utf-8") p a.length p a[0] p a.size pigeon% pigeon% b.rb 3 233 5 pigeon% Guy Decoux