From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2011-02-17T21:47:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Cann't require UTF-8 files.


On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Fernando Perez wrote:

>> I usually recommend not using UTF-8 in source at all and
>> push all UTF-8 strings into localization files (Either using a
>> heavyweight
>> solution like i18n or just a plain YAML file, if you don't want a
>> dependency).
> 
> This makes the views (in RoR) unreadable, also we somehow lose 
> autocompletion by the text-editor of html in the yaml file.

I think at least the "unreadable" part is debatable. Autocompletion might
be handy, but the features of your editor should not factor into the organization
of your code.

Also, ERB templates are #read, which takes the external-encoding setting
into account and then evaluated using #eval, which does take the encoding 
of the string into account. Other templating libraries like haml have a 
setting for the default template encoding. So templates are not
really the problem, as you can already use utf-8 pretty freely without marking 
it.

Regards,
Florian