From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T03:24:22+09:00
Subject: Re: unicode in ruby

On 3/8/06, Richard Gyger <richard@bytethink.com> wrote:> so, you guys are telling me a language developed since the year 2000> doesn't support unicode strings natively? in my opinion, that's a pretty> glaring problem.
For me it is a problem as well. But getting unicode right is hard.Look at the size of the icu library and the size of ruby itself.Anyway, unicode regexps are planned for ruby 2.0 iirc.
Thanks
Michal

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