From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T05:39:28+09:00
Subject: Re: separate Chinese and English! with Ruby

NZ
another English site on Unicode that may be easier to understand (it  
was for me)
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.html

There must surely be some docs in Chinese somewhere.
I know here in Japan there are many books on the subject. (in  
Japanese) Since computer science in Japan does deal with it a lot.
I've been interested in this subject myself, but it is a big one.
Unicode.org published the print version of 5.0 and I have browsed the  
book in the bookstore, it is worth checking out. Maybe a nearby  
university library would have it also.

It certainly seems like a point where a compiled language would be  
helpful, such as C
Most interpreted languages are only reaching partial unicode support  
now because of the overhead of processing many languages and the  
sheer volume of material to deal with, AND the various algorithms  
necessary for languages whose writing depends on context. (arabic,  
hebrew, indic languages, etc...)

Perhaps Perl and Ruby and Python and PHP should get hooks from Apple  
and Microsoft to help these languages be more productive by using  
their implementations.