On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:19 AM, Charles O Nutter wrote:
I posted this to ruby-talk, but it occurred to me that you folks
implementing Rails functionality probably have a thing or two to
say about unicode support in Ruby. Therefore, I would love to hear
your opinions. Adding native unicode support is only a matter of
time in JRuby; its usefulness as a JVM-based language depends on
it. However, we continue to wrestle with how best to support
unicode without stepping on the Ruby community's toes in the
process. Thoughts?
Julik has done a lot of pionering in that direction for Rails. His
latest suggestion is to use a proxy class on string objects to
perform unicode operations:
@some_unicode_string.u.length
@some_unicode_string.u.reverse
I tend to agree with this solution as it doesn't break any previous
string operations and gives us an easy way to perform unicode aware
operations.
Manfred
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