From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-07-15T21:16:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Character Encoding

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:21:40PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> |I'm interested in any (i.e., arbitrary) extensions of Ruby's character 
> |encoding.
> 
> You need to wait for 1.9, it's in ToDo, among others, such as
> generational GC.

Meanwhile, there are modules in RAA to handle processing of Unicode,
and I have a mostly-complete 1.8 implementation of U8String on
top of those modules, which acts just like String except that it
is initialized from and prints out as UTF-8, and the unit for []
etc. is Unicode characters rather than bytes.

-Mark