From: John Joyce Date: 2007-05-08T05:03:02+09:00 Subject: Re: separate Chinese and English! with Ruby NZ, You might want to check the RubyGems gem unihan At the command line type: gem list --remote uni and it will show up. then gem install unihan --include-dependencies I haven't checked it out yet, but after installing it, check the documentation. It seems to be an API to the Unihan online database. Could be quite useful. John Joyce