From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-08-13T05:42:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby now?

oinkoink+unet@rexx.com (Bret Jolly) writes:

> For example, I understand that one of the top 5 politicians in China
> has a name which does not appear in unicode.  This makes life hard
> for journalists and political scholars writing in Chinese.

Which leads to some interesting Orwellian possibilities: not just
could people removed from history, but we arrange the character set so
that their name cannot even be expressed.


D*ve