From: PJ Hyett <pjhyett@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T11:59:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On 6/14/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/14/06, Charles O Nutter <headius@headius.com> wrote:
> > I believe that Julik's way of solving the unicode problem (String#u
> > providing access to a unicode helper) is very attractive. I have two
> > questions related, for Julik and the rest of the peanut gallery:
>
> > 1. How does performance look with the unicode string add-on versus native
> > strings (or as compared to icu4r, which is C-based)?
> > 2. Is this the ideal way to support unicode strings in ruby?
>
> No. In fact, I believe that Matz has the right idea for M17N strings
> in Ruby 2.0. The *reality* is that there's a *lot* of data out there
> that isn't Unicode.

Yes, we all understand that Ruby 2.0 will be the coolest thing since
sliced bread, but those of us that are currently developing
international websites with Rails don't have the luxury of waiting
until Christmas of 2007.

-PJ Hyett
http://pjhyett.com