From: Run Paint Run Run <runrun@...>
Date: 2009-08-03T17:10:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:24710] Re: [Bug #1853] Cannot make constants using 	upper-case extended characters?

> Thank you for the link. (I'm in the process of documenting some of this).

Documentation is sorely needed in this area, so that sounds wonderful.
:-)  (Look at http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/character_encodings
and http://yokolet.blogspot.com/2009/07/design-and-implementation-of-ruby-m17n.html
if you haven't already).

>
> We may be at cross-purposes over terminology, but when you say "to change this behaviour
> would be to make the semantics of the program locale dependent", do you mean that the
> behaviour of an individual Encoding may be locale-dependent?

I believe all that matz meant is that the definition of constants
would depend on the script encoding, which may be set externally, i.e.
via -K, the shebang, or the system locale if the source comes from
STDIN or via -e. How much of a problem this would be practically, I'm
unsure.

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