From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-06-16T04:50:25+09:00 Subject: Re: A few good articles on Unicode "Charles O Nutter" writes: > At any rate, they're entertaining to read and cleared up a number of my own > questions about Unicode. Perhaps they will help the rest of us in the Ruby > community to understand Unicode as well. > > Part 1: On the Goodness of Unicode - > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode > Part 2: On Character Strings - > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/13/Strings > Part 3: Characters vs. Bytes - > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF > Part 4: Programming Languages and Text - > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/30/JavaStrings > > And while not directly related, Tim also fiddled with a > fully-unicode-supporting UTF-8 string class in Java with many of the typical > C string operations (strcpy, strstr, ...). Some of the logic he uses for his > byte-vector-as-unicode-string might be applicable to Ruby as well: > > Yooster (Ustr): http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/17/Yooster While were are at it, also see "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org