The Ruby thing is probably due to the fact that EUC and Shift-JIS were then (and...

		nandemo on April 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Name: Illegitimate The Ruby thing is probably due to the fact that EUC and Shift-JIS were then (and to some extent still are) the prevalent encodings. It's not so much about character sets, after all Unicode includes every kanji defined in ISO-2022. Please see my other comment in this thread.