From: Izidor Jerebic <ij.rubylist@...>
Date: 2006-05-27T01:38:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and unicode


On 24.5.2006, at 23:02, Dae San Hwang wrote:
>
> If you need methods that properly manipulate UTF8 strings, install  
> unicode gem and install unicode hacks from http:// 
> julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/unicode_hacks/
>
> Unicode hacks replaces String methods with UTF8 aware versions.
>

You should not advise the use of unicode hacks plugin, since it will  
very probably break any Rails application.

See for example <http://www.fngtps.com/2006/01/encoding-in-rails> and  
<http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/unicodeLibForRuby18.html>...


Regards,

izidor