From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-09-19T18:52:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:18734] Re: Character encodings - a radical  suggestion

Oops, I misfired my mail reader; the following is the right one:

In message "Re: [ruby-core:18732] Re: Character encodings - a radical  suggestion"
    on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:34:21 +0900, "Michael Selig" <michael.selig@fs.com.au> writes:

|I assume that you are referring to my suggestion to remove support for  
|"non-ASCII compatible" encodings?

No, I was referring the past proposals like "abandon all M17N and
choose Unicode as unified internal character set, like other `major'
languages do" as such.

|Of course you are the boss when it comes to Ruby, but I feel that you  
|could have phrased this statement ("But no thanks in advance....") a  
|little better.

I am sorry if my phrase appeared offensive.  UTF-16 is a nasty beast,
but as I stated we have other beasts (dummy encodings), so that simply
removing UTF-16 would help us little.  We have to do it consistently,
if we do.

							matz.