From: Victor Shepelev <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2006-06-14T14:26:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:37 AM
> In message "Re: Unicode roadmap?"
>     on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:11:49 +0900, "Victor Shepelev"
> <vshepelev@imho.com.ua> writes:
> 
> |From: Pete [mailto:pertl@gmx.org]
> |Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:58 AM
> |> As I am German the 'missing' unicode support is one of the greatest
> |> obstacles for me (and probably all other Germans doing their stuff
> |> seriously)...
> |
> |The same is for Russians/Ukrainians. In our programming communities
> question
> |"does the programming language supports Unicode as 'native'?" has very
> high
> |priority.
> 
> Alright, then what specific features are you (both) missing?  I don't
> think it is a method to get number of characters in a string.  It
> can't be THAT crucial.  I do want to cover "your missing features" in
> the future M17N support in Ruby.
> 
> 							matz.

I suppose, all we (non-English-writers) need is to have all string-related
methods working. Just for now, I think about plain testing each string
method; also, some other classes can be affected by Unicode (possibly
regexps, and pathes). Regexps seems to work fine (in my 1.9), but pathes are
not: File.open with Russian letters in path don't finds the file.

More generally, it can make sense to have Unicode as the "base" mode; where
non-Unicode to stay "old, compatibility" mode.

Something like this.

V.