On 11/3/06, ToddG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shannon -jj Behrens wrote: > > I'm not using Myghty or Web helpers, but I can give a brain dump on > > how I'm using encodings since you seemed like you wanted me to: > > Definitely helpful, thanks. It would seem either a) everyone knows this > stuff and it doesn't need to be mentioned, or b) lots of people have no > idea or a vague idea and wing it and generally get by that way. > > Lots of english speakers probably get away with mostly ignoring the > issue (me! until now...), and AFAIK languages like Java deal with it > more or less transparently (defaults to unicode strings right?), and > PHP and/or Ruby (for example) have no language support for it yet, > etc., so it's often not explicitly discussed in those worlds. > > Okay, off to read more on it (and figure out what I do or don't have to > do in Pylons to handle this correctly), thanks again.
Welcome to being "a stupid American". I'm one too. This stuff took me a lot of work to learn. I've been in charge of i18n at two different companies, but there's no end to the number of ways that this stuff can cause you pain. The Tower of Babel? Yeah, we got screwed! Happy Hacking! -jj -- http://jjinux.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" 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/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
