hi,

sorry to jump in the middle of the discussion but..

From: Dave Thomas <Dave / thomases.com>
Subject: [ruby-talk:01036] Re: Is this a bug?
Date: 03 Jan 2000 13:29:52 -0600

> > I think it is a kind of bug.  Maybe, it will take some long time to
> > solve it and get been stable.
> 
> Apart from the potential for confusion, I'm worried about
> portability. If the interpretation of a string of characters depends
> on the local, and on the way Ruby has been compiled, then scripts are
> not portable between machines, and that's a problem.

It'd be better to use ascii char set only, if you are warring about
portability of your script.  I believe an ascii-char-set-only-script
is not depending on the compile time options.

regards,
--
            yashi