From: Charles O Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T05:17:07+09:00
Subject: Re: state of unicode support

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And I apologize for the lag...I've got my servers behaving now.

On 7/28/06, Charles O Nutter <headius@headius.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/28/06, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/28/06, Charles O Nutter <headius@headius.com> wrote:
> > > Oh come on, you don't want to read all those bazillion emails to get
> the
> > > bottom line? :)
> > >
> > > Seriously though y'all, isn't there a nice, short FAQ out there
> > somewhere? I
> > > haven't been able to find one. There must be something, right?
> >
> > Lest we start another flamewar on Unicode, can we please, please,
> > pretty please remember MINASWAN?
> >
> > I'm really getting tired of seeing all these sarcastic posts and also
> > personal attacks on this list.  I barely read RubyTalk anymore because
> > of it, and it makes me sad because I really do love this list, and
> > many of the people on it.
>
>
> This wasn't intended to be sarcastic, honestly! I didn't get the answer I
> was hoping for out of the last thread, and if anyone else comes in to ask
> the same question again there's still not a very good answer. I just hoped
> there might be a one-page FAQ that describes the various ways to do
> unicode
> now and in Ruby 2.0, with a short compare/contrast section on each. That
> would be really helpful to me and to others looking for the same answers.
>
> But I'm seriously considering unsubscribing because of how no one
> > (except the folks who have been around for quite some time) seems to
> > respect the very thing that attracted me to Ruby, the friendliness of
> > it's community.
>
>
> Email is a terrible medium for communication, especially among creative
> folks that feel passionately about their art. I suppose these sorts of
> flame
> wars are bound to spring up from time to time because it's so difficult to
> discern the tone of someone's email. I also suppose you just have to take
> it
> all in stride, but I can appreciate your frustration when threads quickly
> elevate to the email equivalent of yelling.
>
> As far as unicode support goes, it's a complicated topic.  People who
> > want to sum it up in one line probably don't really care about the
> > tough design decisions behind it.
>
>
> I don't want a one-liner, I want a one-pager :) I think it ought to be
> possible to summarize what our options are for unicode support in Ruby in
> one page, but I'm not sure such a page yet exists. I'd love to be proven
> wrong! :)
>
>
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