Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
>> Yes, that seems to be Latin-1. Why are you using Latin-1 and not
>> UTF-{8|16} in the first place? They are supersets of Latin-1.
>
> I am aware of this, Marnen.
>
> What I don't know is how to get Ruby/Rails to generate UTF-8 and/or
> Unicode.
Why do you think you need to do something special here? Rails doesn't
"generate" text, for the most part; it just manipulates and hands back
what you give it.
In other words:
1. Given the ASCII string "Ralph Shnelvar", how would you have Rails
print "Ralph Shnelvar"? (Hint:you should already know the answer to
this.)
2. Given the UTF-8 string "ラルフ・シュネルヴァー", how would you have Rails print
"ラルフ・シュネルヴァー"? (Hint: the answer is the same as for #1.)
Of course, you need to set the proper encoding headers in your HTML, and
you need to have your DB encoding be UTF-8, but those are external to
Rails.
[...]
>> * You've declared your document as XHTML, but not used an <?xml ?>
>> prolog. Therefore, it will be interpreted as UTF-8 as described at
>> http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset .
>
>
> OK ... that sounds like the problem ... I think.
I believe that's the immediate problem, yes.
>
>>
>> * But you shouldn't be generating XHTML anyway. Browser support for
>> XHTML is extremely problematic. See http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml for
>> further information. Use HTML 4 or 5 instead. If you use HTML 4, make
>> sure to install the html_output plugin so that Rails will not use the
>> XML-style <self-closing tag/> syntax, which is not valid in HTML 4.
>
> Ok ... which do you recommend ... 4 or 5?
I've been using HTML 4. I don't know how well HTML 5 is supported by
browsers currently in use, but that's because I haven't done the
research yet. I'm sure others know more than I do on this point.
Best,
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