From: Dmitry Severin <dmitry.severin@...>
Date: 2006-06-14T17:19:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

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Almost all typical tasks on Unicode can be handled with UTF8 support in
Regexp,  Iconv, jcode and $KCODE=u, and unicode[1] library (as in
unicode_hack[2]) :)
(but case-insensitive regexp don't work for non ASCII chars in Ruby 1.8,
that can be probably solved using latest Oniguruma).

But if you're looking for deeper level of "Unicode support", e.g. as
described in Unicode FAQ[3], those problems  aren't about handling Unicode
per se, but are rather L10N/I18N problems, such as locale dependent text
breaks,collation, formatting etc.
To deal with them from Ruby  take look at somewhat broken wrappers to ICU
library icu4r[4], g11n[5] and Ruby/CLDR[6].

And if you want Unicode as default String encoding and want to use national
chars in names for your vars/functions/classes in Ruby code, I believe, it
will never happen. :)

Links:
[1] http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html
[2] http://julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/unicode_hacks/
[3] http://www.unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html#13
[4] http://rubyforge.org/projects/icu4r
[5] http://rubyforge.org/projects/g11n
[6] http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-cldr.html

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