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Perl can handle Japanese just fine nowadays. Back in 1995, though, Unicode support was... iffy at best. Now, Ruby must be differentiated by other things.
by windsurfer 14y ago
Perl can handle Japanese just fine nowadays. Back in 1995, though, Unicode support was... iffy at best.
Now, Ruby must be differentiated by other things.
- btilly 14y agoThe issue was much worse than Unicode support. Ruby natively supports multipleincompatible Japanese encodings, including Unicode and shift-JIS. This is a lot harder than just marking off a Unicode checkbox.