I don't think Rails supports UTF8 yet... but I could be wrong. ----- Ryan Bigg Freelancer http://frozenplague.net
On 28/09/2008, at 12:31 PM, SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote: > > it seems that there is no parameter for the function h() > (html_escape()) > to indicate the character encoding being used? > > for PHP, its htmlspecialchars() function has a dozen encoding > possible, > such as UTF-8, Chinese Big5, Chinese GB, Russia, Japanese. > > i think thought, h() will work for UTF-8, since h() will only touch > the > 4 special characters > > < > & " > > and replace them with < etc and those 4 characters are all in the > 0x00 to 0x7F range, and h() will leave the other bytes intact > (unchanged). Now, since a character in UTF-8 can be 1 to 4 bytes, and > that any ASCII will be represented as 1 byte, which is 0x00 to 0x7F > itself, and that 0x80 to 0xFF and other unicode characters will be 2 > to > 4 bytes long, but with the 1st to 4th bytes all being in the 0x80 to > 0xFF range (see UTF-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf-8 ), so when > h() > replaces those 4 ASCII characters, it will successfully do so when h() > sees those 4 characters as a 1-byte character, and then it will bypass > all the 1st to 4th bytes characters because those characters are in > the > 0x80 to 0xFF range, and therefore can never be matched as one of > those 4 > special characters, so the job of replacing those 4 characters will be > done with no side effect whatsoever done to the non-ASCII characters. > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
