From: durgaprasad guda <durgaprasad_guda@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T14:07:33+09:00
Subject: Re: My impressions about Ruby(Adequacy of Unicode)

--- Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> zuzu wrote:
> >>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.
> 
> Read again. I read this as saying that Unicode is
> indeed
> inadequate for the purposes of many Asian
> programmers.
> 
> Hal
> 

Here about Unicode and Indian Languages:

http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/multi_sys/unicode/intro.html

saying:
 "It is true that Unicode is a world standard proposed
and accepted by a large community of academics,
professionals and users. Unfortunately, it does not
really blend with the syllabic writing systems used in
india, much less provide the means to express
linguistic content without ambiguity and in a manner
that ties in well with our own understanding of
languages."

Prasad


		
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