<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Richard O'Keefe's contributions to the "Strings (was: Re: are Mnesia<br>tables immutable?)" thread on this mailing list(**) are quite
<br>informative and, IMO, should be mandatory reading for "strings"<br>people.</blockquote><div><br><br>This is the thread: <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general/16021">http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general/16021
</a><br><br>It outlines nicely many the problems with strings and encodings.<br></div></div>