From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T21:17:58+09:00
Subject: Re: A plan for another unicode string hack

On 6/15/06, Paul Battley <pbattley@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/06/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> > |I agree with Austin on this - the distinction is too vague. I'd leave
> > |length and size the same and make a size_in_bytes method.
> >
> > On my latest prototype (not checked in anywhere), String#length and
> > String#size behave same, and there is String#buffer_size to return
> > size in bytes.  The method name might change in the future.
> Actually, this makes a lot of sense. Why would you ever want to know
> the actual byte length of a UTF-8 string? It's pretty meaningless for
> most string-processing tasks: the main times you would need it would
> be in allocation and interfacing with external systems and libraries.
> Thus, something like buffer_size maps to real-world usage extremely
> well, in my opinion.

I agree. #buffer_size or #byte_size is probably sufficient. #size and
#length should return the number of glyphs in the string.

-austin
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