From: Clifford Heath <cjh_nospam@...>
Date: 2002-08-05T08:38:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby now?

Curt Sampson wrote:
> Remember, Unicode uses 16-bit code values,

No. Unicode uses UCS-4 characters, 32 bits. It also provides UCS-2,
which has surrogates, which don't allow easy extension to encoding
all UCS-4 characters. However that's not a good argument why programs
should deal with characters as anything less than 32-bit. UCS-2 has
always been a broken encoding and should be avoided, but UTF-8 
resolves the issue (up to 31 bits anyway).

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Clifford Heath