From: Tim Bray <tbray@...>
Date: 2006-06-26T13:46:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:21 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Are there any
> specific operations that should be in ByteArray but not in String, or
> vise versa?

Well, on strings, indexing and substring operations and iterators and  
regular expressions should (at least optionally) have character  
rather than byte semantics, right?   Another example is encoding- 
normalization (combining diacritics, etc) which doesn't apply to byte  
arrays. -Tim