From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-05-07T02:04:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Are %q and %Q universal?

On 5/6/02 7:10 AM, "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> Fortunately (or unfortunately) Ruby parser only takes ASCII character,
> so that you have to convert unichars into ASCII before passing
> programs to the parser.  So that your assumption will not be the
> problem.

The light dawns. I was interpreting the one line explanation of the -K flag
incorrectly, but in a way that happens to work as long as the flag and the
encoding parameter to dataUsingEncoding and initWithData are consistent.

In looking into this a bit more, I read up on EUC and SJIS. Now here's a
question just to satisfy my curiosity. "Did the inventor of SJIS like to
inhale plastic adhesives?" EUC has an internal logic, as does UTF-8. SJIS
just seems deliberately arbitrary and obscure.

Probably I'm missing something because I can't write Japanese.

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