From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2006-06-14T19:52:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On 6/14/06, Paul Battley <pbattley@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/06/06, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> > It should be also
> > possible to convert the string (ie to UTF-32 to speed up character
> > access).
>
> utf8_string.unpack('U*') is pretty close to this, giving an array of codepoints.

 But I want it to be string after the conversion, so that I can use
the standard string functions with sane results. I do not want to
think about varoius encodings myself if my application has to use
them. The runtime should do that.

Thanks

Michal