From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-06-28T23:26:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Andy Roonie is perhaps excessively optimistic

Hi,

In message "Re: Andy Roonie is perhaps excessively optimistic"
    on 02/06/28, Benjamin Peterson <bjsp123@yahoo.com> writes:

|Like many others, I would be happy to devote a large
|amount of time to Ruby.  In my particular case it
|would be to i18n, since I can't use Ruby without it. 
|But in practice, I have no way to find out whether
|someone in Japan is already making an i18n effort, or
|whether any changes I made would be accepted, or
|whether matz has decided what i18n should consist of,
|so it doesn't really make sense for me to do anything
|at all.

You can tell me what you like to see in the future, although I cannot
promise you anything (yet).  I mean I'd like to hear about the spec,
not about the implementation.  For your information, you can get and
see my experimental M17N implementation from the CVS ruby_m17n branch.

|The current validity of these thoughts is impossible
|to ascertain, but (unless perhaps my Japanese is at
|fault) they seem to express a somewhat MULE-ish
|attitude...

I'm not sure what you mean by "MULE-ish".  I think we are going to
step further.

							matz.