On Sep 17, 2008, at 8:43 PM, James Gray wrote:

> And if you prefer to do the UTF-8 everywhere strategy, you can,  
> right?  Transcode everything to UTF-8 when it comes in and then you  
> can pretend it's all UTF-8 (because it is!), right?  Don't we have  
> the best of both worlds now?

Well, yes, as long as Ruby will let me get at the codepoints  
efficiently.  Oh, and in an ideal world, use Unicode properties like I  
can in Perl (\p{Lu} for example).  I think that would make all use  
Unicode whiners shut up.  -T