From: Dan Bikle Date: 2005-12-06T13:53:25+09:00 Subject: [rails][ruby talk] Localization woes People, I'm trying to use the Localization Generator written by Joe Hosteny:http://rubyforge.org/projects/localization/ The idea behind it is simple. For example, for Spanish, create a file named sp.yaml and fill it withkey value pairs: hello: holahere: aquíSpanish: Español Then when I need to translate a key into a value I do something like this: @msg = l(:Spanish) So everything seems to work okay if I put plain characters in sp.yaml. Webrick, however, spazzes out if I put non-English characters in sp.yaml: script/server=> Booting WEBrick..../script/../config/../lib/localization.rb:62:in `iconv': "叩 aqu鱈 como"(Iconv::IllegalSequence) from ./script/../config/../lib/localization.rb:62:in `load_localized_strings' from ./script/../config/../lib/localization.rb:61:in `each' from ./script/../config/../lib/localization.rb:61:in `load_localized_strings' from ./script/../config/../lib/localization.rb:60:in `open' from ./script/../config/../lib/localization.rb:60:in `load_localized_strings' from ./script/../config/../lib/localization.rb:52:in `each' from ./script/../config/../lib/localization.rb:52:in `load_localized_strings' from ./script/../config/../config/environment.rb:59 ... 8 levels... from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in`require__' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in`require' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:214:in`require' from script/server:3zmac11:~/pt/TThier/Languages/ruby/j413 oracle$ Notice the msg:./script/../config/../lib/localization.rb:62:in `iconv': "叩 aqu鱈 como"(Iconv::IllegalSequence) It was caused by this line in my sp.yaml:you_are_here_as: usted está aquí como Obviously it had problems withestáandaquí I used emacs to create sp.yaml and emacs asked me which character setencoding I want to use. I told it utf-8 and emacs saved sp.yaml just fine. I pulled the actual characters from google and used my mouse to copythem into emacs: http://translate.google.com/translate_t I checked the encoding my browser was using on the google page and ittold me it was using: UTF8which I'll assume is the same as the utf-8 I'm using in emacs. Do any of you have some sample localization yaml files which you'd bewilling to share with me? How about some general troubleshooting ideas? Thanks,-Dan