From: Alexander Danilov <alex_oscol@...>
Date: 2002-03-04T15:24:18+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-m17n

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:03:36AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "ruby-m17n"
>     on 02/03/04, Alexander Danilov <alex_oscol@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> |I make patch for ruby-m17n to support my encoding(koi8-r russian).
> |Now I want to test my patch, but I don't know how.
> |Can someone show me an example of m17n api?
> 
> I'm not sure what do you mean by "m17n api".
> If koi8-r is a single byte encoding, checks should be:
yes, koi8-r sungle bytte encoding
> 
>   * String#toupper
>   * String#tolower
>   * regex match with /i
>   * regex \w should match word characters
> 
> For multibyte encodings, additional checks are:
> 
>   * String#size returns number of characters
>   * String#[n] returns codepoint of the nth character
>   * str.split(//) splits into single character strings.
>   * regex should match multibye strings
>   * printf "%10s" should occupy 10 terminal columns.
>   * and other string operations should be "multibyte aware".
> 
> 							matz.
Thanks, but how can I explain ruby that all my strings in koi8-r
encoding?