From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T11:40:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On 6/14/06, Charles O Nutter <headius@headius.com> wrote:
> I believe that Julik's way of solving the unicode problem (String#u
> providing access to a unicode helper) is very attractive. I have two
> questions related, for Julik and the rest of the peanut gallery:

> 1. How does performance look with the unicode string add-on versus native
> strings (or as compared to icu4r, which is C-based)?
> 2. Is this the ideal way to support unicode strings in ruby?

No. In fact, I believe that Matz has the right idea for M17N strings
in Ruby 2.0. The *reality* is that there's a *lot* of data out there
that isn't Unicode.

I would suggest that JRuby could offer a JavaString that acts in every
way like a String except that it provides access to the native UTF-16
implementation.

-austin
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