Re: Learn a Variety of Languages . . . . . . . (was: Re: [tlug] Re: Bourne Shell is the most appropriate scripting language)

["Ian MacLean" <imaclean@example.com>]

On 1/16/07, Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Guillaume Proux wrote:

> I don't know what would happen with standard ruby but the little I
> have read is scary.

Basically, in Ruby a String is a string of bytes, not characters, and
all of the standard methods treat it that way.

Just like perl 5.6, PHP 5  and other non unicode aware languages/environments.

So long as know what this
means and you remember this, life is not too difficult.

really ? - so how do you *easily* get a character count for a string of utf-8 bytes ?

Ian