Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby stable branch is....1.9?"
    on Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:50:09 +0900, Stefan Scholl <stesch / no-spoon.de> writes:

|> That's not a bug, it's a feature! Ruby 1.9 is on the path to 2.0  
|> which gets rid of the whole 1 byte == 1 character thing.
|
|I thought it's a 1 Fixnum == 1 character thing? :-)

We'd like to add encoding information to "characters".

|Well, this change will get really funny. There are many hidden
|places where code relies on ?X giving a Fixnum. Including REXML.

We know.  But it's the last chance to introduce those incompatible
changes.

							matz.