From: Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>
Date: 2008-03-11T19:04:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Reding unicode characters?

7stud -- wrote:
> James Gray wrote:
 >> [...]
>> $ ruby -KU -r jcode -e 'p "R�sum�".jsize'
>> 6
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
> 
> How does that prove the ruby supports unicode?  Where are there any 
> unicode characters in your string?

1/ There's a difference between codepoints and characters, speaking of 
unicode "characters" is confusing at best.

2/ "Supporting unicode" is probably meaningless (which unicode encoding 
by the way?), building UTF-8 applications in Ruby is perfectly doable 
thanks to jcode, regex UTF-8 support, ... I know, among other things 
it's what I built my company on.

The example above obviously assumes an UTF-8 locale in the terminal you 
type it...
For more data, just try size instead of jsize in the same example and 
read jcode's rdoc.

Lionel