From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-06-25T23:25:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16859] Re: national characters is strings

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:16852] RE:national characters is strings"
    on 01/06/25, "Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev@bigfoot.com> writes:

|What encoding will have sum of two strings ( via "+" ) ?

They should have same encoding (or at least compatible encoding).

|Now I use English, Russian, German, Esperanto. Next year I plan to start
|studying Japanese ( did I spell it corrrectly? ). 
|How could I combine Japanese and Russian strings?
|Suppose I read user input. What encoding has the input string?
|
|I'm afraid all those questions ( if unanswered ) would lead to Unicode.
|The list of problems is at IBM's site I metioned earlier.

Use Unicode for that purpose, if it's workable.  I don't deny Unicode.
M17N will support Unicode (UTF-8 particularly) too.  But Unicode is
not an almighty solution.  If I choose to use ICU, I have to stick
with Unicode (and abandon others).

							matz.