From: Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov <xm@...>
Date: 2001-10-04T19:15:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22069] Re: writing UTF-8  strings


> -----Original Message-----
> From: matz@ev.netlab.jp [mailto:matz@ev.netlab.jp]On Behalf Of
> Yukihiro Matsumoto
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 2:05 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:22068] Re: writing UTF-8 strings
>
>
> Hi,
>
> In message "[ruby-talk:22067] Re: writing UTF-8  strings"
>     on 01/10/04, Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> writes:
>
> |So what do I declare?:
> |
> |<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
>
> I'm not good at XML, but I know you can call your ASCII file as UTF-8.
>
> |Is there a difference between an ASCII string and a UTF-8 string with
> |only ascii region characters?
>
> No.
>
> |With Ruby, would use UTF-8 characters, serve ASCII, and declare
> it's UTF-8?
>
> I'm not sure what you meant by "serve ASCII", but there's nothing
> prevent you from using UTF-8 in your Ruby scripts, if you can edit
> UTF-8 files.
Tobias, I recommend you to visist http://www.czyborra.com/utf/#UTF-8
This link describes UTF-8 very good, including pointing out that UTF-8 is
100% ASCII compatible if only ASCII chars are used.
Also this page covers different Unicode-based formats too in a vary simple
and understandable manner.

P.S. Unicode rocks - everyone statrt using it immediately! ;))
But the size of translation tables make shivers scatter all over m back :))

Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov, Tech Lead @ bolotov.ru group
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