[#35446] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #4477][Open] Kernel:exec and backtick (`) don't work for certain system commands — Joachim Wuttke <j.wuttke@...>

10 messages 2011/03/07

[#35476] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #4489][Open] [PATCH] Encodings with /-(unix|dos|mac)\Z/ — "James M. Lawrence" <quixoticsycophant@...>

20 messages 2011/03/10

[#35552] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4523][Open] Kernel#require to return the path of the loaded file — Alex Young <alex@...>

14 messages 2011/03/24

[#35565] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4531][Open] [PATCH 0/7] use poll() instead of select() in certain cases — Eric Wong <normalperson@...>

33 messages 2011/03/28

[#35566] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4532][Open] [PATCH] add IO#pread and IO#pwrite methods — Eric Wong <normalperson@...>

12 messages 2011/03/28

[#35586] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4538][Open] [PATCH (cleanup)] avoid unnecessary select() calls before doing I/O — Eric Wong <normalperson@...>

9 messages 2011/03/29

[ruby-core:35522] Re: [Feature #2350](Rejected) Unicode specific functionality on String in 1.9

From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2011-03-18 10:19:18 UTC
List: ruby-core #35522
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 19:33, Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 18:24, NARUSE, Yui <naruse@airemix.jp> wrote:
>> (2010/03/26 0:02), Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> I was wondering if there was a way to do it without having to do
>
> String.new.unicodify.upcase

>> But I think, people want both ASCII version and Unicode version of upcas=
e.
>> So you should name your Unicode methods another names.

> Why would they want that? =C2=A0Having an ASCII-only version of #upcase
> makes no sense for a Unicode String more than supporting #upcase
> requires that you load the Unicode character database information,
> which takes up quite a lot of memory.

So, what=E2=80=99s the reasoning here?  Having "=C3=A4bc".upcase return "=
=C3=A4BC" makes
absolutely no sense and means that quite a few methods on String are
completely useless in a m18n context.

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