From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-07T02:09:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12161] Re: Is Ruby japanese-centered?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:12124] Is Ruby japanese-centered?"
    on 01/03/06, "Henning VON ROSEN" <hvrosen@world-online.no> writes:

|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...

Since I have no knowledge about other languages than Japanese, I
couldn't tell it was usable enough or not.

|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:-))?

M17N stands for Multilingualization.  M17N is a basis of I18N.  I18N
includes translation of messages, adopting to the culture etc.,
whereas M17N is a functionality to enable I18N (e.g. multiple script
handling, switching message language, etc.)

There's another term "L10N", which means Localization.  But this is a
different story.

							matz.