From: Ivan Mashchenko <ivan.mashchenko@...>
Date: 2007-06-01T20:28:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

Richard Conroy wrote:

> It depends on your definition of 'convenient'.

IMHO convinient is as in C#. There I don't have to bother how are 
strings stored in memroy, they just do work and are international.

> Well yes, but I would use UTF-8 instead.

Won't there be a problem if the data is stored in UTF-16 (as far as I 
know Orace, NVARCHAR uses 16-bit per symbol)

> Also Ruby 1.9 is going to break/deprecate stuff - I wouldn't develop against it
> migrating from 1.8 -> 1.9 is going to be tricky

So why should anyone develop a new project against 1.8 if it is going to 
be deprecated?

> If you are moving to Ruby 1.9, do it with a complete working 
> application.

But isn't it going to be tricky, as you've said?

I dont have to be moving for now as I have no line of Ruby code (I have 
only an idea in my head) for today. And no Ruby experience (I am C++, 
C#, Java and T-SQL developer). I've chosen Ruby as it seems almost good 
and free.

Have I understood you correctly - you think I should make it Ruby 1.8 
and then do a tricky move when it comes?

> Or better still, develop against Rails versions, not Ruby versions.

This advice can prove useful. I'll think about it.


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