From: Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov <listbox@...>
Date: 2006-08-01T01:02:33+09:00
Subject: Re: state of unicode support


On 31-jul-2006, at 17:48, Paul Battley wrote:
> Whilst it's certainly useless for a lot of tasks, I'm not sure that
> Ruby is any worse than other languages in this regard. As far as I'm
> aware, most languages that 'support' Unicode don't handle grapheme
> clusters without using additional libraries.

AFAIK Python regexps do that properly, and ICU does for sure (both as  
free iterators and regexps).

> Actually, that's a really good idea. Which languages/frameworks have
> you found that actually do it right? We could learn from their
> example.

To my knowledge you are intimately familiar with the subject so I  
take it as sarcasm.

But if you really feel like being constructive you can update the  
Unicode gem (wich you promised about a month ago) :-))

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