From: Pete [mailto:pertl / gmx.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:58 AM > As I am German the 'missing' unicode support is one of the greatest > obstacles for me (and probably all other Germans doing their stuff > seriously)... The same is for Russians/Ukrainians. In our programming communities question "does the programming language supports Unicode as 'native'?" has very high priority. /BTW, here is one of the things where Python beats Ruby completely V.