Re: ActiveSupport::Multibyte for better Unicode support

On 9/26/06, Thijs van der Vossen <t.vandervossen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please not that ActiveSupport::Multibyte support all Unicode planes
> and not only the Basic Multilingual Plane. My knowledge of Java is
> very limited, but judging from the article at [1] working with
> anything beyond U+FFFF takes some serious effort.

Yes, the limitations are fairly well-known for the "astral plane", but
hopefully they'll comprise rare edge cases. On the other hand, our
potential UTF-8 string implementation (a gift from Tim Bray) is
intended to do full Unicode support "the right way" so it could serve
as a general-purpose AS::MB implementation in JRuby as well as our
implementation of Ruby's normal String...

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