From: ts Date: 2001-06-25T22:07:05+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:16853] Re: national characters is strings >>>>> "A" == Aleksei Guzev writes: A> Please, take a look :) Please, take a look at this :-) http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/unicode/library/u-secret.html and try to look at this subject, Unicode does not seems to solve all the problems for Eastern languages. Guy Decoux