Rails - Jul 2005 - Localization problems with leeding html escaped ÅÄÖ

Hi All.

When translating a string to in swedish, using HTML codes for å,ä,ö i 
have a minor problem.
Eg: (se.yaml)
  ui_core_over: Över

All I get when calling l(''ui_core_over'') in my view is
"Ouml;ver"
The leeding & is missing, making the page look silly.

The HTML characters works fine as long as it''s not used as the first 
letter in the string.

Anyone experienced this, and solved it?
Regards // Jonas Montonen

That''s because the ampersand has a special meaning in YAML (it  
defines anchors). If you place quotes (double or single) around the  
string, the data will be treated as a string literal and the problem  
won''t appear. But if you stick to the same encoding, preferably  
UTF-8, throughout your project and make sure that the content-type  
header is correct, you won''t have to mess with HTML characters in the  
first place :)

Also, you may want to check out Sascha Ebach''s excellent manual on  
how to internationalize your apps using Gettext - it is an extremely  
elegant way of doing it:

http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/82



//samuel

Den 4 jul 2005 kl. 13.32 skrev Jonas Montonen:
> Hi All.
>
> When translating a string to in swedish, using HTML codes for å,ä,ö  
> i have a minor problem.
> Eg: (se.yaml)
>  ui_core_over: Över
>
> All I get when calling l(''ui_core_over'') in my view is
"Ouml;ver"
> The leeding & is missing, making the page look silly.
>
> The HTML characters works fine as long as it''s not used as the  
> first letter in the string.
>
> Anyone experienced this, and solved it?
> Regards // Jonas Montonen
>
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