From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T08:50:22+09:00
Subject: Re: My impressions about Ruby

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 07:53:30 +0900, Lennon Day-Reynolds
<rcoder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unicode support does not necessarily replace all standard Japanese
> text encodings, and given that Ruby probably still has more users in
> Japan than anywhere else, it seems a bit rash to demand that Matz
> break support for many commonly-used Japanese charsets.
> 
> UTF-8 in the core would be nice, though.
> 
> Lennon

if it weren't rash i'd probably insist upon it more.

at the same time, i would have no love lost with a lack of iso-8895-1 encoding.

apple osx supports unicode natively for multilingualization (m17n) and
word is quite a success with its native japanese support.  i believe
linux also supports unicode natively in the console at least.  is it
windows screwing people up with legacy shift_jis?

-z