From: gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro)
Date: 2000-01-07T19:49:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01062] Re: Locales and codesets

In message "[ruby-talk:01060] Re: Locales and codesets"
    on 00/01/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp> writes:

>They are omitted from English document on purpose.  I consider them as
>domestic features, which probably require redesign in the future to
>support real I18N.  Ruby currently supports Japanese specific L10N.

I guess we desire M17N rather than I18N.  M17N allows us to use of
some regexps for different languages in an identical program.  But
maybe, the literal cannot be ready to M17N because it is too difficult
to change the coding system in a file for parser unless iso-2022 is
adopted.

-- gotoken