[Rails-core] Localization ideas/proposal

Sascha Ebach
Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:21:19 -0000

Hi jm,

snipped..

this is really good news! Looking forward to seeing what you have done. Why
is Per out of this one? Other projects at the moment?

> 1. Should the
> plugin ennforce utf-8 encoding for storage as MLR does currently?

UTF-8 is still the lowest common (and compatible) denominator. It is not
perfect, but at least until Ruby 2.0 comes out it will probably work for
most ppl. As far as I understand Ruby 2.0 will have it''s own encoding,
which could then be used. Maybe if we are lucky Christmas 2006 or 2007.
Just guessing from Matz''s releasing habits in the past :)

> 2. Should
> controllers and views be offered either in another package or as an
''engine''
> for editing translations?

Hm, I don''t quite understand this. Do you have an example?

Sascha Ebach