From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-11-26T09:40:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9

On Nov 25, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Clifford Heath wrote:

> Both UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings allow you to look at any location in a string and step forward or back to the nearest character boundary - a very important property that was missing from Shift-JIS and other earlier encodings.

This also provides a kind of simple checksum for validating the encoding.  I love that feature.

James Edward Gray II