From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T04:40:36+09:00
Subject: Re: My impressions about Ruby

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 04:17:31 +0900, gabriele renzi
<surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> wrote:
> il Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:53:54 GMT, "Sam Sungshik Kong"
> <ssk@chol.nospam.net> ha scritto::
> 
> Thanks for considering the community nice, your comment is quite nice
> too..
> 
> Just some points:
> 
> A class is an object in python too. And it has class methods, just
> like ruby. Actually, they even both have metamethods (as in method of
> the class' class). Python even have static methods. (which imho are
> useless..)
> If you want docstrings they're easy to implemente, take a look at
> metatags on the ruby application archive: raa.ruby-lang.org.
> 
> And about unicode.. well, you could use the iconv library, but it's
> agreed that better encoding handling is needed.
> If you look in the archives You'll find references to m17n, and you'll
> discover that unicode is impressively restricted and euro centric (I
> could never ever ever suppose that a charset with 170000 characters
> existed, but it does.). This is supposed to be fixed in ruby2.
> 
> Happy rubying :)


all this complaining about unicode not being japanese friendly, i
don't understand it.
utf-8 includes hiragana, katakana, and the ~10,000 kanji.  what's the problem?

also, what are the difficulties in implementing unicode encoding?
web browsers such as mozilla seem to support unicode without much problem.

-z