From: TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...>
Date: 2000-04-28T00:19:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02591] Re: Replies for

Hi,

matz@netlab.co.jp (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:
> The problem is that we still have plenty of:
> 
>   * text data in old encodings
>   * programs that only understand old encodings

And, there is ambiguities in convering between Unicode and legacy
japanese encodings. So we cannot convert old-encoded files into
Unicode automatically :-<

cf.
XML Japanese Profile (W3C Note)
http://www.w3.org/TR/japanese-xml/


BTW, are there Korean user in this ruby-talk list?  I think
Ruby's EUC-mode of Regexp class can handle EUC-KR. Is it true?

TAKAHASHI Masayoshi (maki@inac.co.jp)