From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-05-11T03:10:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby's Future?

On 5/10/02 9:54 AM, "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

>  + string indexing is based on character, even for multi-byte
>    characters.
>  + regex routine understands multi-byte character strings.
>  + user can define new character encoding scheme.
>  + Ruby will shipped with support for ASCII, Latin-1, UTF-8, EUC-JP,
>    SJIS, and probably more.
>  + the goal of Ruby M17N is string manipulation without code
>    conversion.
>  + but there still be need for code conversion, but its spec is not
>    fixed yet, probably it will use iconv.
> 
> If you don't use multi-byte characters, there will be no
> incompatibility.  If you do, string indexing for multi-byte character
> string is not recommended; use regex match instead.

Thanks to Matz and everyone who responded. I really like where Ruby is
going.

I infer from what is here that it's a poor idea for fake C structures like
stacks with strings. We should use arrays for that kind of thing.
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