From: "Jörg W Mittag" <JoergWMittag+Ruby@...>
Date: 2010-11-26T03:30:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> 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."

.. and zero-width characters and different representations of the same
character and ...

But that is a whole different can of worms.

jwm