From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T07:39:10+09:00
Subject: Re: My impressions about Ruby

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:02:02 +0200, Mauricio Fern�ndez
<batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 04:40:36AM +0900, zuzu wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> (note: there's more than 10000 Han characters)
> 
> Please read
> 
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/99174

so the problem isn't unicode, but supporting *all* encodings?
i respect matz's opinion on the backlog of code in other encodings... 
but the purpose of unicode (iirc) is "one encoding to rule them all".

i would switch to unicode and tell everyone else to deal.
 
> > also, what are the difficulties in implementing unicode encoding?
> > web browsers such as mozilla seem to support unicode without much problem.
> 
> This doesn't mean anything, they are not general purpose like Ruby ;-)
> 
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