From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2010-11-24T21:12:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:33320] Re: not use system for default encoding

NARUSE, Yui (Guest) wrote on 2010-11-17 15:53
> Anyway, Matz said his team are developping embeded Ruby.
> It doesn't have M17N and only supports US-ASCII/UTF-8.
> http://www.slideshare.net/yukihiro_matz/rubyconf-2...

Interesting: that may be a forward path for me, as long as it can handle
binary too.

One of the joys of ruby 1.8 is that it is so small: the source tarball is
about 1/3rd of the size of Perl, and yet it comes with a much more complete
set of libraries.  It runs on tiny machines like OpenWrt boxes with 4MB of
flash, and the kernel and the rest of the O/S has to fit in that space too
:-)

It would be a shame if most existing libraries and frameworks wouldn't work
with embedded ruby though.

Regards,

Brian.