I was reading through "The Ruby Way" and noticed the sentence: "Because Ruby
isn't fully internationalized at the time of this writing, a character is
essentially the same as a byte."

This implies that we may expect a character to be something other than a
byte in the near future. I started to search the archives but thought that
there are enough other newbies on this list that a summary of the plans
would be useful to many of us. Would some knowledgeable person please post a
synopsis of where Ruby is going  in this area. It would be very helpful if
it contained hints about how to write code that wont break during the
transition.

TIA,
Chris
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