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nradov
on March 2, 2010
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A rant about Ruby 1.9 String encoding
You're right. Java originally used UCS-2 and later switched to UTF-16.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/first_edition/html/3.doc....
The problem is that dealing with surrogate pairs is so awkward that most developers don't even bother.
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