From: Martin Duerst <duerst@...>
Date: 2008-01-01T14:01:33+09:00
Subject: Re: locale in ruby

At 07:55 07/12/30, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>On 29/12/2007, Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> wrote:
>> In article <a5d587fb0712281659v4fc834dbscf0a474075aa18de@mail.gmail.com>,
>>   "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@centrum.cz> writes:
>>
>> > I tried to make the curses extension work with utf-8. It is possible
>> > but it requires setting locale properly which Ruby currently does not
>> > do. It also requires ncursesw but these are typically available on
>> > systems that do multibyte terminal IO.
>>
>> Ruby 1.9 invokes setlocale at beginning of main.

I'm not sure this was a good idea. It will change Ruby behavior
in various areas, even when not intended.

Regards,   Martin.

>Yes, I see.
>
>It's been checked in on Dec 21.
>
>Any chance this could be done for 1.8 as well?
>
>Thanks
>
>Michal


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