From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-14T07:25:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

Hi,

In message "Re: Unicode roadmap?"
    on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:13:03 +0900, Roman Hausner <roman.hausner@gmail.com> writes:
|In my opinion, Ruby is practically useless for many applications without 
|proper Unicode support. How a modern language can ignore this issue is 
|really beyond me.

Define "proper Unicode support" first.

|Is there a plan to get Unicode support into the language anytime soon?

I'm planning enhancing Unicode support in 1.9 in a year or so
(finally).  But I'm not sure that conforms your definition of "proper
Unicode support".  Note that 1.8 handles Unicode (UTF-8) if your
string operations are based on Regexp.

							matz.