Can this be done by using a middleware? If so, I'd say you could start a gem that injects this into middleware stack.
While I see that this error is legit, I don't think the fix will be in Rails Core because the core team (that I don't think anybody knows Romanian) would be suitable to maintain this set of functionality as they'd never use it. Let me know if you need some help to find the place to plug in. Thanks, Prem On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Nicolae Popa <nickx...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a combined feature-bug request, and, ironically, it's due to > Microsoft's error. > *Problem*: Windows 95, 98, 2000, 2003 server and XP are unable to display > the correct diacritics for Romanian language. Instead, these versions were > projected to use some Turkish diacritics. The correct diacritis in Romanian > are [ș, Ș, ț, Ț]. The incorrect diacritics are: [ş, Ş, ţ, Ţ]. In all fonts, > correct characters are not defined. Microsoft was unable to correct the > problem, so there is no patch. > If a user running, for instance, Windows XP, is visiting a website > containing ș, Ș, ț, Ț, these characters are replaced by small rectangles, > like the one in file error1.png. Also, when filling in a form, the user > will type the incorrect characters, because the keyboard layout is wrong. > *Possible Solution*: If *config.i18n.default_locale* is *:ro* and the > browser's operating system is *not Windows NT* or is *Windows NT prior to > 6.0 (Vista)*, then Rails should: > 1. replace [ş, Ş, ţ, Ţ] with [ș, Ș, ț, Ț] if the request is POST > 2. replace [ș, Ș, ț, Ț] with [ş, Ş, ţ, Ţ] if the request is GET > These 2 replacements should be applied not only to request/response's html > body, but also to the URL. > The browser's operating system can be checked from HTTP_USER_AGENT. Old > versions of Windows are not coded 'NT'. The problem applies also for > versions of Windows coded 'NT' prior to version 6.0 (Windows Vista). > *Sidenote:* Wikipedia is the only website I know to address this problem: > http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Diacriticele_vechi_%C8%99i_noi > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
