From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-03-10T02:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: What character sets are available in Ruby ?

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From: "MikkelFJ" <mikkelfj-anti-spam@bigfoot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: What character sets are available in Ruby ?


> > 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"

I don't think this is intended to work. I know
it does in Java, but that's a different beast.

Hal