From: Rik Hemsley <rik@...>
Date: 2001-12-03T21:55:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27346] Re: Unicode string for the standard library ?

#if Henning von Rosen
> > I am wondering if anyone else is missing an Unicode string as much as I
> > am, and if they have ideas/information on what might happen in this
> > direction in the future.
> > 
> > Rik
> 
> the utf-8 representation works fine for me, as regexes do support them.

Is UTF-8 really ok ? Qt uses QString, which is a collection of QChar,
which is UCS-2 (er, 2 bytes, I think that's the right name.) 

I would guess that the reason for this is because byte != character, and
with an Unicode string, you want to deal with characters.

Hmm, I'm no Unicode expert :|

Would it be better for Ruby to have 'UChar' and 'UString' classes, or is
it really a better solution to store string data as UTF-8 ?

Rik