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Blatantly false. Perl4 could handle Japanese text perfectly okay in early 90s. Neither Perl or Ruby supported character encoding initially and you had to rely o
by euske 9y ago
Blatantly false. Perl4 could handle Japanese text perfectly okay in early 90s. Neither Perl or Ruby supported character encoding initially and you had to rely on NKF/KConv etc.
- wodenokoto 9y agoBeing able to handle Japanese and being able to handle character encodings are two very different things. Python 2.7 (byte) strings handle Japanese characters just fine for a lot of cases. I don't think you nor parent have made a clear point for either case
- chongli 9y agoPython 2.7 (byte) strings handle Japanese characters just fine for a lot of cases. Python 2.7 was released in 2010, 15 years after the release of Ruby. At the time of Ruby's release, you were looking at Python 1.0.
- masklinn 9y agoAnd Python 1.0 handled text (in general) in the exact same way Ruby did: by ignoring it altogether and just manipulating bags of bytes.