From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2002-07-06T03:12:30+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

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>No.  Not for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, (I think) Hebrew ...
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>Well, maybe.  I can't think of a language where a string isn't a
>set of characters _in that language_, however, when you're talking
>about a computer representation, a string is a sequence of characters
>but a "character" in the alphabet can also be a sequence of bytes
>itself.
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>A String might appear at first to be derived from Array, but a String
>is really an Array of Characters, where a Character might itself be
>an Array of Bytes.
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A String *is*: an Array of Characters + a CharacterSet, IMHO.  Whether 
the implementation should be based on that, is something else.