From: Curt Sampson <cjs@...>
Date: 2002-08-01T12:30:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby now?

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Clifford Heath wrote:

> Is Mojikyo a superset of Unicode?

Yes.

Basically, Ruby being a Japanese product, it is unlikely ever to be able
to standardise on Unicode. The Japanese (well, enough of them to matter)
hate Unicode. (They seem to hate I18N in general, for that matter; they
certainly seem to pay less attention to it than, say, Americans.) Maybe
they just like doing their own thing rather than interoperating with the
rest of the world.

(Sorry about the minor flame. I spent two years in the U.S. and another
year here in Japan doing I18N work, and it was pretty darn frustrating.
And it was my great disappointment with ruby to find out that the I18N
support is so poor.)

cjs
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