From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-05-05T22:05:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of Strings in Range

Hi,

In message "Re: Strange behaviour of Strings in Range"
    on 04/05/05, Mike Calder <ceo@phosco.com> writes:

|1) When you get round to implementing whatever (let's call it SuperCode) in 
|Ruby, it should be part of the core and transparent to the user of String 
|methods, and 

Don't worry.  It would be transparent except you have to declare your
favorite encoding once somewhere somehow, unless you want to treat
multiple encodings in one application.

|2) Until Ruby does with SuperCode or whatever what Java does today with 
|Unicode, it's no use to me for production code and remains an (albeit pretty) 
|toy as far as my practical applications are concerned.

Right.  Vaporware does not help you.

							matz.