Re: [Rails-core] Getting back to the old story of Unicode support

2006-06-12 Thread Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov
On 12-jun-2006, at 9:36, Thijs van der Vossen wrote: On 11 Jun 2006, at 09:09 , Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov wrote: @some_unicode_string.u.length @some_unicode_string.u.reverse +1 Moved to http://julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/ unicode_hacks/test/t_chars.rb -- Julian 'Julik'

Re: [Rails-core] Getting back to the old story of Unicode support

2006-06-12 Thread Thijs van der Vossen
On 11 Jun 2006, at 09:09 , Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov wrote: @some_unicode_string.u.length @some_unicode_string.u.reverse +1 This is very slick indeed. We at Fingertips would love to see this added to the core. Kind regards, Thijs -- Fingertips - http://www.fngtps.com Phone: +31 (0)6 24204

Re: [Rails-core] Getting back to the old story of Unicode support

2006-06-11 Thread Charles O Nutter
I'll jump in to say that we on the JRuby team are also very interested in finding a way to support unicode. We're close to running Rails in more general scenarios, and obviously running on top of the JVM we have the potential for unicode support out of the box. However, we have held off providing a

Re: [Rails-core] Getting back to the old story of Unicode support

2006-06-11 Thread Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov
On 11-jun-2006, at 14:56, Mislav Marohnić wrote: That is some nice work here, Julian. Proxy access makes this possible to adopt while not breaking anything - I would, too, like to see this someday _without_ a proxy. I have a question and a request that aren't really about the hacks (I wo

Re: [Rails-core] Getting back to the old story of Unicode support

2006-06-11 Thread Mislav Marohnić
That is some nice work here, Julian. Proxy access makes this possible to adopt while not breaking anything - I would, too, like to see this someday _without_ a proxy.I have a question and a request that aren't really about the hacks (I would leave that to more experienced programmers) but about the

[Rails-core] Getting back to the old story of Unicode support

2006-06-11 Thread Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov
I ranted and I raved and I tried and failed :-) Unfortunately, my proposal to wreak havoc in the String class proved futile - it popped up bugs that I never seen before (among others CGI escaping and ERB broke, the latter in a rather intricate way). Outside of these two problems the solutio