From: Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T00:56:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Slashdot mention (Kate/KDevelop syntax highlighting)

One of the sidethreads on the Slashdot article discuss Ruby having
problems with Unicode and dealing with individual characters (only
having String#each_byte).   I assume the regexes and such still work
with Unicode data, it's just that data inside of Strings are just
treated as raw byte arrays?

If so, this doesn't seem like a *huge* problem.  Much of the Linux
world deals in UTF-8 encodings because their buffer code doesn't have
to even *know* about the existance of other languages then.

I guess what I'm getting at is I may end up having a few work programs
here and there, and if I do one in Ruby (which up until now is not
really possible due to the lack of a Windows-to-exe tool like Perl's
PAR), I'd like to know that it can be localized to EFIGS+J if needed.

--MPD