On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:17 AM, Michael Koziarski wrote: > >> You mean they would get mad if Rails _did_ support UTF-8 out of >> the box? > > Yeah, UTF-8 and unicode aren't terribly popular in japan. For more > information than you ever thought you'd want, you can read up on the > Han unification. It's also much less efficient (space wise) than > their 'legacy' encodings.
ActiveSupport::Multibyte doesn't favor any encoding. It currently implements UTF-8 operations because that's what we, and a lot of other people on the web, use daily. We believe that you shouldn't implement anything you're not going to use yourself. This is also explained on our Trac page, in the FAQ. https://fngtps.com/projects/multibyte_for_rails/wiki/FAQ Manfred --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
