From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2010-05-07T13:12:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:30079] Re: [Bug #1685] Some windows unicode path issues remain

Hi,

U.Nakamura wrote:
> 
> I assume,
> 
> 1) matz: the grand designer of Ruby
> 2) naruse: an authority of Ruby M17N
> 3) me: main maintainer of Ruby on Windows
> 4) all users of Ruby, of course, especially people using
>    non-unicode (multibyte) environment


For #1 (sorry, I can't resist :)

  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/20110


For #4, wouldn't we expect people using a non-unicode environment
to *not* set their default_internal encoding to UTF-8 ?  So I
would think they would not be affected.


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As an aside, from the point of view of writing ruby software to
be installed on arbitrary user's machines, I don't think there's
any such thing as a non-unicode environment anymore.

The minute any of my users (even if they are English speaking)
downloads a file from their web browser called
������������������������������������������������������.mpg
my application which uses Dir.entries to locate and catalog
media files, is now broken on their system.

(Of course, since I distribute the Ruby interpreter with my
application, I have the luxury of working around the problem,
by installing a non-standard Ruby.  But I still believe it's
important for standard Ruby to have full Unicode support on
Windows.)


Regards,

Bill