I would like to ask a clarification question. I'm working on a project with Merb+AR right now that needs unicode. Basically, I just need to save UTF8 when people enter it in text fields on forms.
As I understand it now, UTF8 will go through just fine as long as $KCODE is set to 'u' (which it is in merb-core by default). The only caveats are that you need to make sure the database is configured for UTF8, and you have to avoid some String methods that don't support it. Is this correct? Or will I not be able to pass UTF8 over to the database through my forms in Merb? Thanks! -Kyle On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:28 PM, knowtheory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > There has been a lot of discussion struck up in #merb on freenode > regarding merb's approach to internationalization and Localization. > It's worth it to put together a thread as the jumping off point for > some organization since a lot of people appear to be interested in > this and appear to be hacking up solutions independently. > > Background info: > Merb has some localization hooks built in (http://github.com/wycats/ > merb/tree/master/merb-helpers/spec/numeric_extlib_spec.rb ), but > otherwise localization is left as an exercise for the developer. Full > support for internationalization and unicode is a target for merb 2.0, > along with ruby 1.9 support which i've heard rumors is targeted for a > less than 12mo release cycle atm. > > Existing libs: > > Mattetti has done some work on localization and has started in on a > library called merb_babel, which you can find at: > http://github.com/mattetti/merb_babel/tree/master . The solution he's > used is to tie merb_babel together with another lib he's got for merb > that was extracted from ActiveSupport's unicode support (http:// > github.com/mattetti/multibyte/tree/master). > > Antifuchs in #merb also pointed out the merb_global lib as well (which > i haven't checked out) at http://github.com/myabc/merb_global/tree/master > > So, what else do people want to know? What are the requirements for > localization that people have for their apps? > > (we can fire up a wiki page for this based on what comes out of this > thread) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
