From: Stefan Schmidt <Stefan.Schmidt@...>
Date: 2008-07-11T00:39:01+09:00
Subject: Re: String#upcase/downcase with UTF-8 strings in Ruby 1.9

> > So basically the Python guys are going down a wrong route ?
> >
> > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> > import string
> > print string.upper(u"aoue����")
> > print string.lower(u"AOUE����")
> >
> > works as expected.
> >
> > Cheers, Stefan
> >
> No.
> They're going down a different route.
> Seriously, the language handling is something that could easily be  
> handled by extensions. It does not need to be a core part of the  
> language.

Is Nikolai Weibull's Ruby Character Encodings Library [1] currently the best way to go?

Stefan

[1] http://bitwi.se/software/ruby/character-encodings/