I tried to read through the thread but didn't actually find an answer...
Isn't the solution to make sure that en.yml is UTF-8 encoded, ie it in
UTF-8?
--Lasse
2010/2/15 Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com>
> 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,
> --
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