From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-06-01T18:55:25+09:00
Subject: Re: BARRIER - ruby yaml - utf-8 characters not human readable

On 20 Μάϊος, 18:26, Ilias Lazaridis <il...@lazaridis.com> wrote:
> After reading within some archives, it seems that the standard-
> behaviour of ruby is to save utf-8 data within yaml files in this
> form:
>
> äïêéìÞ => "\x9B\xA6\xA1\xA0\xA3\xE3"
>
> Is this so?
>
> If yes, what is the simplest way to change this behaviour?
>
> Requirements:
>
>  * solution should be usable for end-users
>  * solution should not require any changes within the application
> which uses yaml
>
> Example solution:
>
>  * gem install another-yaml-which-saves-human-readable-utf-8

fixed for ruby 1.9.3:

(changed default YAML from "syck" to "psych", which saves utf-8 data
human readable)

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4758

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