From: alex_oscol@... (Alexander Danilov)
Date: 2002-02-11T00:48:44+09:00
Subject: Re: locale

"Vitaliy T Morarian" <Vitaliy.Morarian@itgrp.net> wrote in message news:<003f01c1b17a$372ff1e0$0c01a8c0@itgrp.net>...
> Hi all!
> 
> How to change locale in ruby? I want to use national representation of day,
> week, etc in strftime.
> In example:
> print Time.now.strftime("Today: %A, %d %B %Y")
> 
> With best regards,
> Vitaliy T Morarian [team Enticla]

As I understand at the current moment of development of Ruby you
must load module 'locale' (look at RAA)

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -rlocale

Locale.set(LC::ALL,"ru_RU.KOI8-R")


but it does not help you with "russian for example text".split(//)
but may be help with Time.now 
(I don't remember)