From: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@...>
Date: 2010-02-10T06:51:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings -- was: Re: Why Ruby?

>> A string is composed of characters.  Binary data is composed of bytes.
>> They're two different things and should be supported as such in the
>> language.

Binary data is composed of bytes, string is composed of bytes. These
are exactly the
same till you get some meta knowledge about the data, namely the
encoding, which then
lets you to figure out characters from the bytes.


Regards,
Rimantas
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