From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-01-12T00:06:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Unicode - ever?

On 11/01/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> >>(current state of UTF8 in Ruby, even with regexps, is too far away
> >>from proper Unicode support, don't try to cheat me, that it's OK and
> >>enough, it is not!)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >For 99% of cases, in fact, is *is* sufficient. What do you think is
> >missing?
> How would the regexp engine match multibyte UTF8 characters that have
> what is ASCII whitespace as one of the lower bytes? Or how would
> /\w{2,4}/ react to a single three-byte UTF-8 character? I didn't yet
> stumble upon this in the rather spartan kcode documentation, does the
> UTF8 support for Japanese input cater for these perks?

I donno. I suspect that if $KCODE = 'u', it will work rather
surprisingly well. I don't know to be honest, though.

-austin
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