# Re: unicode in ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-unicode-in-ruby/78911>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 9, 2006, 10:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-unicode-in-ruby/78911 "2006-03-09T10:32:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 10:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-unicode-in-ruby/78911/1 "2006-03-09T10:32:16Z")

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Dear Michal,

> hmm, I wonder why C with a hook is called Ccaron in keymaps…  
> But I heared that in Turkish  
> they use both I, I with dot, i, and i without dot. Consequently, I is  
> uppercase form of i without dot …

I haven’t found outwhat caron means, either, although they have  
otherwise  
quite nice pages about diacritical signs and letters on top or  
somewhere around them on Wikipedia.

I agree with you that some support of Unicode should be part of  
Ruby directly and I heard that it will be in future versions …  
but I also think that one cannot use a computer seriously beyond  
a typewriter/internet connection/music-video-player if one does  
not have a compiler on it. On Windows, you can remedy this by using  
gcc in Cygwin/MinGW. I once tried to install a compiler on OSX,  
and didn’t manage to, so this caused me to install Linux on that  
machine, and eventually buy a non-Apple as the next laptop…

Concerning the I/i issue in Turkish: this can only be fixed separately,  
I think. For some languages, you find lists of the, say, 100 or so  
most frequent words in texts of that language on the internet.  
Assuming that you know beforehand what languages you are going  
to process, you can then let a script decide what language you are  
dealing  
with based on whether you find relatively many occurences of  
{“is”,“and”,“the”} or {“est”,“et”,“le”,la"} etc…

Best regards,

Axel

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**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-unicode-in-ruby/78911/2 "2006-03-09T15:52:39Z")

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On Mar 9, 2006, at 3:29 AM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> I once tried to install a compiler on OSX,  
> and didn’t manage to, so this caused me to install Linux on that  
> machine, and eventually buy a non-Apple as the next laptop…

All copies of Mac OS X ship with a Developer’s CD. It installs a  
compiler and much more via a Click and Drool™ interface. 😉

James Edward G. II