[Rails-spinoffs] Re: Problems with ö,ü,ä

Christophe Porteneuve
Wed, 09 May 2007 20:46:37 -0000

Yanick a écrit :
> In the project I''m workin on, we also need accented characters
> (frnech), and using UTF-8 alone will not work. I had to set the HTML

Why wouldn''t it?  UTF-8 encodes Unicode, which contains all known
characters.  I''ve used it on all my i18n''d projects for years.

> encoding to ISO-8859-1, and have every XML responses return UTF-8

Latin-1 is dead, dead, dead.  It doesn''t even contain the € symbol or
the œ letter, for crying out loud!  Talk about FR support!

> encoded strings. I don''t know exactly why UTF-8 would not work
with
> HTML, but with this combinaison, there''s no need to convert
special

You''re obviously doing a wrong conversion somewhere on your process
chain.

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