From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-31T00:23:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-dev:11339] Re: Ruby I18N

Hi,

In message "[ruby-dev:11338] Re: Ruby I18N"
    on 00/10/30, Aleksi Niemela <aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

|Any chances to get a small English summary of this thread posted to
|ruby-talk.

Unlike Perl and Python, we don't choose UTF-8 as internal encoding.
Reasons:

  * we already have zillions of multibyte text data; performance
    penalty of code conversion is not tolerable.

  * round trip problem; the string code conversion to Unicode then
    converted back to the original encoding sometimes does not result
    in the same string.

Instead, we treat various encodings as they are in 1.7 (and eventually
1.8 or 2.0).

							matz.