From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-03-10T03:01:31+09:00
Subject: Re: What character sets are available in Ruby ?


"MikkelFJ" <mikkelfj-anti-spam@bigfoot.com>
> 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 must have not understood the concept behind i18n.
Never had a need to write such programs.

So please allow me a question out of ignorance.

I thought that it had to do with ** data ** that the program
manipulates and ** not ** with the program itself.
In other words, as long as a language  supports:

     Copenhagen = "K�benhavn"

we can say that it has i18n support.

Whether it supports variables, statements etc. like MikkelFJ suggested:

     K�benhavn = "Copenhagen"

does not really matter.

Wrong, eh ?

-- shanko