Joel Spolsky got one thing right

Thijs van der Vossen, 01 Sep 2006, 09:11 in ruby on rails and unicode, last updated 04 Sep 2006, 11:27 (edit).

Although I fully agree with David that Joel Spolsky’s Language Wars is one of the purest forms of FUD against Ruby and Rails ever, I do think Joel got this one right:

I for one am scared of Ruby because (1) it displays a stunning antipathy towards Unicode […]

Sad as it may be, this fear is mostly justified.

Comments

  1. lopex about 11 hours later: (delete)

    Because unicode sux (at least for asian languages) - and it is ISO's fault

  2. Thijs van der Vossen about 11 hours later: (delete)

    Why? What's the problem with Unicode for 'asian languages' in your opinion?

  3. lopex about 12 hours later: (delete)

    here is some info: http://kraftvaerk.net/index.php?id=298

    I read also about the fact that unicode is not robust enough to support some languages [!]. I post the info as soon as I recall where I found it.

  4. Thijs van der Vossen about 23 hours later: (delete)

    I assume you're referring to the first point of the post you're linking to?

    If so, we're talking about the 'Han Unification' in Unicode. Please read the following articles to find out more about why this is really not a big issue:

    http://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/~otfried/Mule/unihan.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification

  5. lopex 1 day later: (delete)

    Thanks, I was not aware of that.

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