IIRC full unicode support is planned for 2.0, or something along those lines.
Ah yes, _why talks about it: http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/futurismUnicodeInRuby.html
He also mentions a third-party library for UTF-8 support that works in 1.8: http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/nikolaiSUtf8LibIsAllReady.html
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Ollivier Robert wrote:
According to Daniel K�smayr:
It seems to me a bit odd that Unicode characters are not universally supported ruby most of the time - I would have expected nothing less from ruby, at least ;)
This is one of the main gripes people have with Ruby, it is difficult to admit that a language written by a Japanese guy not to be i18n/m17n aware.
I even heard people saying they'd stick with python for that reason.
Matz has some good reasons but it is still difficult :(
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