From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T01:50:44+09:00
Subject: Re: A plan for another unicode string hack

On 14/06/06, Dae San Hwang <daesan@gmail.com> wrote:

> For now, it will support only utf-8 encoding as ruby's regexp doesn't
> seem to support encodings other than ascii and utf-8. (I could use
> iconv to convert encoding internally to utf-8 for each method call,
> but at the moment, I think it's probably too costly and not worth it.)

Regexp also supports EUC (which seems to work for EUC-KR as well as
EUC-JP, incidentally) and Shift_JIS. Nevertheless, I think that
starting with UTF-8 is the way to go.

> I would love to get some feedback on this. Matz's feedback will be
> especially great since I want to make this as much forward compatible
> as possible with Ruby 2.0.

I think it's a great idea. If you want any implementation assistance,
I'd be glad to help (I've done quite a bit of Unicode hacking in
Ruby).

Paul.