From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-06-14T23:51:53+09:00
Subject: Re: A plan for another unicode string hack

On 6/14/06, Dae San Hwang <daesan@gmail.com> wrote:
>   String#size always returns the number of bytes in the string.
>   String#length returns the number of characters in the string
> according to the encoding specified. If the encoding is not set, it's
> same as String#size.

This is a bad change.

#size and #length are synonymous now and should remain so. Add a new
method, like #character_count or something like that.

-austin
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