From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-06-04T19:05:32+09:00
Subject: Re: BARRIER - ruby yaml - utf-8 characters not human readable

On 3 Ιούν, 07:26, Panagiotis Atmatzidis <m...@convalesco.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 01 Ιουν 2011, at 12:55 μ.μ., Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> I can successfully manage Greek (save/red) chars using "ya2yaml (0.30)".
[...]

I can confirm this, as I've tried it.

But the main issue was, to enable this behaviour out-of-the-box.

As stated, it's solved now:

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

.

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