From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2001-11-12T19:18:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24916] Re: XML libraries (Re:  Re: ruby and webservices)

Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> ??? It certainly does. It used to be the other way 'round: Not all
> UTF-8 maps to UTF-16, but today, UTF-8 and UTF-16 encode the exact
> same characters.

You are right, of course.

> That is also the approach Python took; you also need a powerful
> encoding library to go with the character string type, to convert
> between byte strings and character strings.

By byte strings, do you mean ASCII strings?

--- SER


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