From: Anselm Heaton <anselm@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T18:55:11+09:00
Subject: Re: A plan for another unicode string hack

> Matz has said several times that he will maximize the breakage moving
> to Ruby 2.0. 

If that is the case, is there a reason why we should continue using String for 
bytes then ? We could have a ByteBuffer class or something similar. IO 
objects would return ByteBuffer ; ByteBuffer.to_s would return the string 
equivalent in the current encoding, and ByteBuffer.to_s('my encoding') into 
the required encoding.

Anselm

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