(Long overdue Subject: change)
Hongli Lai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys. Phusion Passenger author here. I would very much support
> standardization of encoding issues.
> At this point, I don't really care what the standard is, as long as
> it's a sane standard that everybody can follow.
Fair enough. Would you/Phusion be comfortable taking the lead here?
This feels like another "hot potato" issue :>
> In my opinion, following Encoding.default_external is not helpful.
> Most users have absolutely no idea how to configure
> Encoding.default_external, or even know that it exists. I've also
> never, ever seen anybody who does *not* want default_external to be
> UTF-8. If it's not set to UTF-8, then it's always by accident (e.g.
> the user not knowing that it depends on LC_CTYPE, that LC_CTYPE is set
> differently in the shell than from an init script, or even what
> LC_CTYPE is).
Perhaps we need to educate users to set LC_CTYPE/LC_ALL/LANG so
Encoding.default_external works as intended? Adding another
option to Rack will just as likely to get missed.
Maybe servers could emit a big warning saying:
WARNING: Encoding.default_external is not UTF-8 ...
And add a --quiet-utf8-warning option for the few folks who really do
not want UTF-8.
