On 28 Sep 2008, at 05:18, Ryan Bigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think Rails supports UTF8 yet... but I could be wrong. Actually it should handle utf-8 just fine. Rails 1.2 added a whole bunch of stuff to augment ruby's somewhat lackluster support. What does h do to utf-8 strings that it shouldn't? Fred > > ----- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
