> Ruby is a language that presumably has a lot of > Japanese users, and it appears to me (I'm not a Ruby > person, so I admit this is speculation) that Japanese > users have to explicitly choose to use Japanese > encoding to run source files encoded in Japanese. > > Setting aside all the limitations of Ruby, wouldn't > the fact that non-latin-writing Japanese Ruby users > live with the command line restriciton in Ruby suggest > that they'd be just as willing to live with command > line burdens in Python, if they decided to switch to > Python?
"Just as willing" is probably the right analysis. It's speculation that the ruby users are *happy* that they cannot double-click a kcode script in the explorer to run it, or perhaps there is another mechanism in Ruby that avoids this problem - it's also speculation that you *have* to use this command line option in order to be able to use Japanese identifiers. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
