Re: ActiveSupport::Multibyte for better Unicode support

Michael Koziarski wrote:
>> You mean they would get mad if Rails _did_ support UTF-8 out of the box?
> 
> Yeah, UTF-8 and unicode aren't terribly popular in japan.   For more
> information than you ever thought you'd want, you can read up on the
> Han unification.  It's also much less efficient (space wise) than
> their 'legacy' encodings.

Java and C# seem to do OK in Japan.

I would also imagine that ASCII wouldn't be very popular in Japan.  :-)

- Sam Ruby


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