From: nickb@... (Nick Bensema)
Date: 2001-03-07T01:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12154] Re: Is Ruby japanese-centered?

In article <MABBIFGPDKFFOJPHLCLIOEAKCBAA.hvrosen@world-online.no>,
Henning VON ROSEN <hvrosen@world-online.no> wrote:
>[matz writes]
>[ruby-talk:11539]
>  (c) you can handle multibyte characters by specifying -K option,
>      which K is for Kanji (Japanese/Chinese characters).  And its
>      multibyte features are totally centric to Japanese (yet, I'm
>      working on it).
>
>							matz.
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>I think matz is very modest:
>
>I couldn't help notice the "-u" option that makes Ruby accept any utf-8
>encoded unicode carachter, in regexes, strings and even varible names...
>
>That is not so bad.
>(For those who havn't tried to name a variable by Kanji, go to
>http://home.no.net/hvrosen/rubeno/ to look at some playing around)
>***se note at bottom of message
>
>Interesting... nowhere in the docs could I find anything on this matter, but
>for the mentioning of /XXX/u and "-Ku". I think that I did find some
>japanese language docs, but... the Exite would not work...
>
>Anyway, can anyone be so kind to enlighten me on what m17n stands for, and
>how it come to be that i18n means internationalization (more than the
>strongly felt need to save typing:-))?

internationalization = i + 18 letters + n = i18n.

So, m17n obviously means Matsumototification.

>I find these docs useful on the i18n topic.
>[about _where_ to depend on encoding, and _where_ not to]
>http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/quick.html
>[I18n-sig] Pre-PEP: Proposed Python Character Model, proposing to deprecate
>the unicodestrings.
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/i18n-sig/2001-February/000646.html
>
>Where does Ruby stand in this?

I wonder who will be the first to derive a Utf8String class based on this.

Also, I point out that even though Python allegedly supports Unicode,
and Tkinter supports Unicode, and Windows 98 supports Unicode, IDLE 0.6
breaks in inexplicable ways when I try to print non-Latin1 characters
to the python shell.


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