From: Michael DeHaan Date: 2004-12-08T02:41:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Slashdot mention (Kate/KDevelop syntax highlighting) On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 01:09:42 +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:56:31 +0900, Michael DeHaan > wrote: > > 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? > > Ruby's Strings are encoding agnostic. For dealing with encoded > strings, there's IConv (on Unix; it's not on Windows, yet). > > > 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. > > Well, basically. > > > 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. > > Ruwiki has EGS translations. > > Exerb has existed for quite a while, so .EXE tools have existed > longer than most people think. > > -austin > -- > Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com > * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca > > Wow, didn't know about exerb! Thanks. ... And I suppose I should actually find time to read my shiny copy of PickAxe 2 sometime as well :)