From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-12-30T06:34:37+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9 hates you and me and the encodings we rode in on so just  get used to it.

Tony Arcieri wrote:
> 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

Sure; and maybe they even want to process these formats without a 
round-trip to UTF8. (By the way, ruby 1.9 *can't* handle Shift JIS 
natively)

I want a programming language which (a) handles strings of bytes, and 
(b) does so with simple, understandable, and predictable semantics: for 
example, concat string 1 with string 2 to make string 3. Is that too 
much to ask?

Anyway, I'll shut up now.
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