From: Zev Blut <rubyzbibd@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T15:48:12+09:00
Subject: Re: separate Chinese and English! with Ruby

On Mon, 07 May 2007 22:18:36 +0900, John Joyce  
<dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you were doing Japanese text, separating English or other western  
> languages wouldn't be so easy, since Japanese essentially includes a  
> number of other languages' character sets in its unicode set and in  
> everyday usage.

If the goal is to separate the western languages from the Japanese
Kanji and Kana, then it appears to not be too bad when using a lib
like this:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/moji/

http://gimite.net/gimite/rubymess/moji.html

Zev