Hi,

In message "Re: Unicode roadmap?"
    on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:36:12 +0900, Tim Bray <tbray / textuality.com> writes:

|Matz is making a strong claim:  
|that he can write a class that will get Unicode right and also handle  
|arbitrary other character sets and encodings, and serve as a byte  
|buffer (it's a floor wax *and* a dessert topping!) and do this all  
|with acceptable correctness and efficiency.  This has not previously  
|been done that I know of.  If he can pull it off, that's super.  It's  
|not unreasonable to worry, though.

Have you ever heard of regular expression engine (one of the hardest
parts to implement in text processing) that handles more than 30
different encodings without conversion, _and_ runs faster than PCRE?

If you have, you might be able to believe existence of something that
is a floor wax and a dessert topping at the same time.

If you haven't, I tell you that it is named Oniguruma, regular
expression engine comes with Ruby 1.9.

							matz.