I don't know if I'm the proper person, because I've never created a gem before. I'm an intermediate Rails programmer (more beginner than intermediate). Also, I don't know much about middleware in Rails. Please advise. Regards, Nicolae
vineri, 7 noiembrie 2014, 09:26:26 UTC+2, Prem Sichanugrist a scris: > 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 <nick...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> 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-co...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> <error1.PNG> > > > -- 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.
