From: Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov <listbox@...>
Date: 2006-08-01T00:20:18+09:00
Subject: Re: state of unicode support


On 28-jul-2006, at 18:54, Chad Perrin wrote:

> There's something relevant in there
> from last month.  Does it answer your question?" rather than the
> equivalent of "Someone already said Unicode this year!  Out, heathen!"

This is not quite true - the problem is that when the subject comes  
up it spurs threads of obnoxious length, with no single answer given.

We heard that Ruby will have _some_ multibyte support and Oniguruma  
by Christmas 2007. This is unbearably far away. Nobody knows how
it is going to work, and any suggestions summon enormous flame wars  
of different origin. Moreover, the threads about Unicode in Ruby (the  
best one
dating back to 2002)  have all ended up with nothing.They were all  
about the same length by the way.

I, for one, am very saddened every time the topic comes up ecause i'm  
sick of the brokenness (I actually start looking at these Other  
Languages and Other Frameworks that take l10n and i18n seriously). I  
believe i'm not alone. Might be the case that many people don't want  
to read about the Big Sad Topic again as long as no promises and  
explanations are given that outline the future. Which as of now  
doesn't look bright, at least for the coming 18 months.
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Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov
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