On 21/09/2006, at 12:15 AM, DHH wrote:
>> We would like to see ActiveSupport::Multibyte included in Rails so >> that developers can start depending on it for simpler and better >> Unicode support. > > I concur. Let this start an official request for comments. Any > objections to getting this into core? I'm definitely in favour of seeing something like this in core. Better unicode handling is needed yesterday! The chars proxy is a very nice way of handling this. A question: How does this compare to the unicode_hacks plugin? (See http:// julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/unicode_hacks/) They seem very similar in both intent and interface. Some comments: Even with this plugin, supporting unicode in a Rails app is too complicated and fiddly. For those who haven't tried it, here are the steps: - Make sure your database character set is utf8 - Make sure all your tables have a character set of utf8 - Make sure your database.yml has 'encoding: utf8' set for each database - Put $KCODE='u' in your environment.rb - Add an after_filter to application.rb to set the Content-Type header correctly - Add 'normalize_unicode_params :form => :kc' to your application.rb Missing one of these steps can produce strange results and corrupted data. If unicode support is being included in core, then this needs to be rationalised. Ideally a single setting in environment.rb should take care of all of this. I also think it should be enabled by default. (Who doesn't want to support unicode nowadays?) Rumour also has it that ActiveRecord, when recreating timed-out database connections, doesn't honour the 'encoding: utf8' setting. I've never run into this personally, so I assume it was fixed at some point? Cheers, Pete Yandell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" 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/rubyonrails-core -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
