From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-03-14T15:31:11+09:00
Subject: Re: unicode in ruby

From: "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com>
>
> On 3/13/06, Anthony DeRobertis <aderobertis@metrics.net> wrote:
>>
>>         UTF-8 can take more than one octet to represent a
>>         character; UTF-16 can take more than two; UTF-32
>>         more than four; etc.
> 
> No. UTF-32 does not have surrogates. Unicode is perfectly
> representable in either 20 or 21 bits. A single character is *always*
> representable in a uint32_t sized space with UTF-32.

Hi, I have zero background in non-ASCII character representations,
but the following post has been echoing in my head as a data point
for... can't believe it's been three-and-a-half years:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/46284

Does that have any relation to your current context?  Curt seems to
be talking not of surrogates, but saying "combining characters"
mean variable-length issues still exist with UTF-32 ?


Regards,

Bill