From: Tim Bray <tbray@...>
Date: 2006-06-27T06:45:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On Jun 26, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Izidor Jerebic wrote:

> How will e.g. Japanese (or we non-English Europeans), which now use  
> default $KCODE, write their Ruby scripts? Will we need to specify  
> encoding in every script for every IO? This can get cumbersome very  
> fast. Not really Ruby style.

I think that anyone, living in any country, working in any language,  
who counts on one global variable to specify the encoding of any file  
they might want to read, will very soon have lots of nasty  
surprises.   Ten years ago, you could do this; no longer.  -Tim