[ruby-talk:01041] Re: Is this a bug?

Yasushi Shoji <[e-mail]> writes:

> sorry to jump in the middle of the discussion but..

Please do.

> > > I think it is a kind of bug.  Maybe, it will take some long time to
> > > solve it and get been stable.
> > 
> > Apart from the potential for confusion, I'm worried about
> > portability. If the interpretation of a string of characters depends
> > on the local, and on the way Ruby has been compiled, then scripts are
> > not portable between machines, and that's a problem.
> 
> It'd be better to use ascii char set only, if you are warring about
> portability of your script.  I believe an ascii-char-set-only-script
> is not depending on the compile time options.

Perhaps -w should warn about the use of non-seven-bit characters?

Dave