From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-11-25T12:39:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9

On Nov 24, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Jörg W Mittag wrote:

> The only two Unicode encodings that are fixed-width are the obsolete
> UCS-2 (which can only encode the lower 65536 codepoints) and UTF-32.

And even UTF-32 would have the complications of "combining characters."

James Edward Gray II