From: peterjohannsen@... (pj)
Date: 2003-03-10T08:41:57+09:00
Subject: Re: What character sets are available in Ruby ?

"Shashank Date" <sdate@everestkc.net> wrote in message news:<1d858c178229b890eb27952ca739f334@news.teranews.com>...
> "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

But, wouldn't you also want deal with string length method, and any
character methods (I dunno Ruby -- does it have uppercase and stuff
like that, or iswhitespace) ?