From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-01-16T15:46:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Quick question for Japanese speaker

Hi,

In message "Re: Quick question for Japanese speaker"
    on 03/01/16, Bruce Williams <bruce@codedbliss.com> writes:

|This brings up another interesting question (for language geeks like me)... 
|When matz, etc speak about Ruby in their native language, do they refer to it 
|natively (as above, etc), or the English "Ruby?"  The fact Hal asked for 
|Kanji makes me assume the former (from my very limited understanding of 
|Japanese he would have asked for Katakana otherwise).  Though... I *have* 
|seen it in Katakana form previously--can someone shed some light on this?

I encourage not to write the name of the language in Katakana.  So we
write "Ruby" for Ruby.

|Also-- significant discussion has taken place on this list as to 'powered by 
|Ruby' images (in English)-- have any similar Japanese discussions taken place 
|(with any result)?  

Icon with "Powered by Ruby" in English is fine for us too.

							matz.