From: Dae San Hwang <daesan@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T06:02:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and unicode

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Yes, strings in UTF8 (or any character set for that matter) simply =20
pass through since they are just byte sequence.

If you need methods that properly manipulate UTF8 strings, install =20
unicode gem and install unicode hacks from http://=20
julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/unicode_hacks/

Unicode hacks replaces String methods with UTF8 aware versions.

You would also need to put following code snippet in config/=20
environment.rb:

$KCODE =3D 'u'

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseUnicodeStrings is a =20
good resource for unicode usage on rails.

daesan


On May 25, 2006, at 4:20 AM, P=E5l Bergstr=F6m wrote:

> Just to be able to work smoothly from source to browser in Swedish
> without problems, the beauty of unicode. As I can understand it works
> like php, where certain methods like string lengths can give problems,
> but besides that it just passes it through. Is this correct?

Dae San Hwang
daesan@gmail.com




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