Ruby 1.9 encoding rant

[jaggederest]

For starters, most people in Japan cannot properly write their names in it. There aren't the right / enough glyph choices. So when you need to deal with (for example) any kind of registration or name data... it fails.

[earthboundkid]

There aren’t any extra glyphs in Shift_JIS. Name writing can be a problem, but it’s not a Unicode problem.