Ralph Shnelvar wrote: >> Yes, that seems to be Latin-1. Why are you using Latin-1 and not >> UTF-{8|16} in the first place? They are supersets of Latin-1. > > I am aware of this, Marnen. > > What I don't know is how to get Ruby/Rails to generate UTF-8 and/or > Unicode.
Why do you think you need to do something special here? Rails doesn't "generate" text, for the most part; it just manipulates and hands back what you give it. In other words: 1. Given the ASCII string "Ralph Shnelvar", how would you have Rails print "Ralph Shnelvar"? (Hint:you should already know the answer to this.) 2. Given the UTF-8 string "ラルフ・シュネルヴァー", how would you have Rails print "ラルフ・シュネルヴァー"? (Hint: the answer is the same as for #1.) Of course, you need to set the proper encoding headers in your HTML, and you need to have your DB encoding be UTF-8, but those are external to Rails. [...] >> * You've declared your document as XHTML, but not used an <?xml ?> >> prolog. Therefore, it will be interpreted as UTF-8 as described at >> http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset . > > > OK ... that sounds like the problem ... I think. I believe that's the immediate problem, yes. > >> >> * But you shouldn't be generating XHTML anyway. Browser support for >> XHTML is extremely problematic. See http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml for >> further information. Use HTML 4 or 5 instead. If you use HTML 4, make >> sure to install the html_output plugin so that Rails will not use the >> XML-style <self-closing tag/> syntax, which is not valid in HTML 4. > > Ok ... which do you recommend ... 4 or 5? I've been using HTML 4. I don't know how well HTML 5 is supported by browsers currently in use, but that's because I haven't done the research yet. I'm sure others know more than I do on this point. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.