From: Tim Bray <tbray@...>
Date: 2006-06-20T02:47:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On Jun 19, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> This entire discussion is centered around a proposal to do exactly
> that. There are many *very good* reasons to avoid doing this. Unicode
> Is Not Always The Answer.
>
> It's *usually* the answer, but there are times when it's just easier
> to work with data in an established code page.

To enlighten the ignorant, could you describe one or two scenarios  
where a Unicode-based String class would get in the way?  To use your  
words, make things less easy?  I would probably not agree that there  
are "*many good*" reasons to avoid this, but probably that's just  
because I've been fortunate enough to not encounter the problem  
scenarios.  This material would have application in a far larger  
domain than just Ruby, obviously.  -Tim