From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2003-03-10T02:21:20+09:00
Subject: Re: What character sets are available in Ruby ?


"Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote in message
news:1047215982.535206.10664.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp...
> Hi,
>
> In message "What character sets are available in Ruby ?"
>     on 03/03/09, pj <peterjohannsen@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> |There is a Ruby FAQ which I read that said that Ruby only supports
> |ASCII. That is, AFAIK, a 7 bit character encoding scheme for a very
> |old character set (one with less than 128 characters).
>
> Ruby does handle ASCII, UTF-8, EUC-JP, SJIS, and perhaps ISO-8859-x.

But not in identifiers?
The following does not work out of the box (the danish name followed by the
english name of Copenhagen):

#translations:
K�benhavn = "Copenhagen"

Mikkel