From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2007-02-26T06:20:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Using unpack on a UTF-8 string

Greg Hurrell wrote:
> Thanks a million, Carlos. I never would have figured that out for
> myself. I misunderstood the documentation for String#unpack:
> C    | Fixnum  | extract a character as an unsigned integer
> U    | Integer | UTF-8 characters as unsigned integers

The problem here is the inconsistent use of character in the
documentation. A character is *not* a byte. The documentation
should be revised to use the two words only in their correct
contexts, with annotations to remind people of this use.

Clifford Heath.