Ruby's unicode support is acceptable in 1.8, and good in 1.9. I'm not asking for the world, I just want string to be able to contain text in any encoding, and to be able to split a string into chars, given a encoding.
I would like to use numbers in various encoding like reversed (bigendian on little endian machines and vice versa). I also want the language to natively support all these number encondings and to be able to add two numbers, given their encodings.
