From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2009-12-30T05:50:31+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9 hates you and me and the encodings we rode in on so just 	get used to it.

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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:

> By tagging every string with its own encoding, ruby 1.9 is solving a
> problem that does not exist: that is, how do you write a program which
> juggles multiple strings in different encodings all at the same time?
>

To play devil's advocate here, Japanese users do routinely have to deal with
multiple different encodings... Shift JIS on Windows/Mac, EUC-JP on *IX, and
ISO-2022-JP for email (if I even got that correct, it's somewhat hard to
keep track).  And then on top of all of that there's Unicode in all its
various forms...

While I would personally never choose M17n as the solution for my own
language I can see why it makes sense for a language which originated in and
is popular in Japan.  The encoding situation over there is something of a
mess.

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Tony Arcieri
Medioh! A Kudelski Brand

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