From: Leonard Chin <l.g.chin@...>
Date: 2007-07-23T16:09:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Editor

On 7/21/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
> TextMate's big weakness is with non-western languages. Japanese for
> example. It can display the characters (if they're in the font you
> are using) but things go crazy when you use the Kotoeri input system.
> This is why in Japan many Rubyists are using Jedit or something.

Textmate actually can handle the display and input of Japanese text
with the appropriate font for the former, and Hetima's Japanese CJK
input plugin.
http://hetima.com/textmate/index-e.html
I have found it to work well enough with a number of different input
method editors, including Kotoeri.

Nonetheless, there aren't all that many Textmate users in Japan -
though they do exist. Most (hardcore) rubyists in Japan seem to be
emacs/vim users, with a bias towards emacs. There are also a bunch who
use editors such as Hidemaru, RDT/Eclipse, and JEdit (as you
mentioned).

An interesting data-point to note is that most of the ruby core team
seems to prefer emacs, whereas most of the rails core team seems to
prefer Textmate.