Feb 2008 Meeting

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DevMeeting-2008-02-15

https://blade.ruby-lang.org/ruby-core/15585

This is a rough translation of the Japanese meeting summary (see [ruby-dev:33825]) by NARUSE, Yui.

There was a Ruby M17N (multilingualization) meeting on 2008/02/15.

(attending: Matz, ko1, ark, nobu, naruse and duerst)

== Looking for a successor for cgi.rb Conditions are as follows:

  • different name than cgi.rb
  • using MVC separation

== String#gsub(regexp, hash) Proposal to allow the following syntax: String#gsub(regexp, {“ä”=>”\u00C4”, ..}) -> accepted

== Information regarding “replica” information -> write this down

== Difference between CP949 and GBK -> They differ, separate

== Concatenating empty strings and with UTF-16 Proposal: empty strings can be concatenated with any string, even if not ASCII Compatible -> accepted

== Slowness of String#length, String#at,… Speed up using search_nonascii Speed up additionally for VALID UTF-8

== String#getbyte, String#setbyte -> accepted

== Indexer -> on hold

== about inspect Consider adding obj.inspect_acumulate(enc)

== Direction for strftime strftime is locale-independent If and when a locale-dependent version becomes necessary, it will be added separately.

== Introducing require_relative Proposal to add require_relative, require’ing a file relative to the file where it is used. -> accepted

== IO.copy_stream Proposal to introduce IO.copy_stream(filename, filename) and IO.copy_stream(stream, stream) to copy a file or a stream. However, because there is a system call when using a filename, Ruby can do something differently. -> on hold, think about names

== Not sure about Hash#compare_by_identity Would like to change to Hash#compared_by(:equal?, :obj_id) -> accepted -> Hash#identifed_by may be better (see [ruby-dev:33817])

== Unicode Normalization Proposals for API:

  • String#encode(“utf-8 nfc”)
  • String#normalize(“nfc”)
  • Encoding::UTF_8.nfc(str) Because one might want to use Unicode Normalization e.g. when reading a file, we also need need to consider what to do for example for open(fn, “r:utf-8”, …).

#-#-# Martin J. Du”rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp