From: Dae San Hwang <daesan@...>
Date: 2006-05-27T04:05:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and unicode

Right, that is because Rails depend on many of String methods that  
unicode_hacks replaces.

However, you can just rename the method names in unicode_hacks.  I  
just add 'u_' prefix to all the methods in unicode_hacks.

Cheers,
Daesan


On May 27, 2006, at 1:38 AM, Izidor Jerebic wrote:

>
> 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
>
>

Dae San Hwang
daesan@gmail.com