From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-05-03T22:24:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of Strings in Range


"Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1083589915.224825.7492.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp...
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Strange behaviour of Strings in Range"
>     on 04/05/03, "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> writes:
>
> |So then what's Unicode for in the first place?  I thought the aim was
to
> |have a universal encoding for all chars.  Did I miss something?
>
> It's _their_ intention.  Whether it succeeds or not is another story.
> I think they tried their best, but it is virtually impossible to
> satisfy all requirement for internationalization.

But does that mean one shouldn't try?  I mean, Java shows that it can work
quite well (though I don't know about using Japanese "characters" with
Java).  I know, it's a difficult topic especially since people sticked
with ASCII for such a long time, but I've always felt that encodings are a
weak spot of Ruby.  But then, maybe I'm overlooking something or some
feature...

Kind regards

    robert