From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-09-05T02:39:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20881] Re: question about coding...

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:20879] question about coding..."
    on 01/09/05, "Chia-hsiu Tu" <chiashow@sinica.edu.tw> writes:

|From the book " programming Ruby", it said that you may use -kmode to choose
|the coding of Ruby...
|however one may use ascii or UTF or other Japanese codings...
|
|Is it  possible to insert Chinese coding (big5 / GB) in Ruby and how to do
|this?

It's now being developed under ruby_m17n CVS branch.  ruby_m17n can
handle Big5 and GB with small additioal code.  But GB18030 is another
story.

							matz.