From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-12T15:20:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12454] Re: Locale support in Ruby

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:12446] Locale support in Ruby"
    on 01/03/12, Ollivier Robert <roberto@REMOVETHIS.eu.org> writes:

|What's the status of locale support in Ruby?

No.  The locale system is not sufficient for non western languages,
like mine.  I'm working on more generic way of multilingualization.

But, for the time being, since Ruby's string methods are currently
based on ctype macros, you can easily add locale effectiveness, by
calling setlocale(3), if your characters fit in a byte.  I'll leave
you making locale extension as a homework. ;-)

							matz.