From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T04:54:53+09:00
Subject: Re: My impressions about Ruby

Hello gabriele,

gr> And about unicode.. well, you could use the iconv library, but it's
gr> agreed that better encoding handling is needed. 
gr> If you look in the archives You'll find references to m17n, and you'll
gr> discover that unicode is impressively restricted and euro centric (I
gr> could never ever ever suppose that a charset with 170000 characters
gr> existed, but it does.). This is supposed to be fixed in ruby2. 

Unicode always was 4 Byte large. The IBM/Apple/MS connection was it
that cutted it down to 2 Bytes and "double" characters. So don't blame
Unicode for the UCS-2 system. Always use UCS-4.


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