From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2009-03-13T19:47:54+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:22880] Re: Unicode sensitive operations Hi, In message "Re: [ruby-core:22784] Unicode sensitive operations" on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:59:56 +0900, Tomas Matousek writes: |What's the status of Unicode/culture-sensitive operations in Ruby 1.9.1? Currently the string comparison is done by byte-by-byte. The culture-sensitive operation should be done by external libraries, such as unicode. matz.