Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: In Defense of Arc

Re:Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: ... by zeka on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @02:14PM (#106987)

If I remember correctly, Ruby doesn't have Unicode support either. Shit, some languages don't even have built-in strings.

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Re:Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: ... by Elfan on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @05:07PM (#107106)

I think that is sort of the point people are trying to make. Pretty much every language messes this up badly. It would be nice to see something learned from those mistakes.

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Re:Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: ... by airhadoken on Thursday January 31, 2008 @12:03AM (#107276)

Seems like some languages are getting the point. While looking for a resource about Unicode support, I saw promising things as well as inauspicious. Seems like multibyte character support would be a good thing to catalog for programming languages (specs as well as implementations)

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Re:Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: ... by bct on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @02:22PM (#106997)

Ruby doesn't, but it's regarded as a mistake and (afaik) is fixed in 1.9.

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Re:Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: ... by BrandonM on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @03:29PM (#107035)

That is especially ironic when you consider that its creator is Japanese. So let me get this right... a language designed by a non-native-English-speaking individual can gain massive popularity without Unicode support, but an American who has no interest in Unicode is supposed to do it anyways? How does that make sense?

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Re:Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: ... by jsnx on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @04:10PM (#107075)

Ruby has always had excellent support for Japanese, though.

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Re:Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: ... by ehird on Saturday February 02, 2008 @07:44PM (#108515)

bingo. the japanese don't like unicode.

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Re:Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: ... by jsnx on Sunday February 03, 2008 @04:54PM (#108783)

Because of UniHan?

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Re:Dear Programmers, Please Learn to Read Before You Speak: ... by mdemare on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @04:23PM (#107083)

You can use Unicode in Ruby 1.8, it's just not very convenient.

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