Today we did some cool stuff with globalize (the library) and Net::HTTP.get. I thought it was pretty awesome, but most people I talked to really didn''t think so, so I''ve come here to share my excitement on this list w/ ppl who''d understand :P Anyways, we took globalize and extended it so that websites were translated on the fly by Google Translate / Babelfish type services out there when someone switched the locale to something Google could translate, and there was no entry in the db. (Maybe it should be an add on to globalize) The translation was horrible, but it was a fun hack. One problem I didn''t get over forever which no one seemed to be able to help me with is that the content from Net::HTTP.get is not in UTF-8 form. To convert this, you must use .toutf8 on the string object. It was simple, but I spent almost a whole day on this, so I document it here for posterity, in case anyon else ever runs into it. Here are the details. I figured you guys would be interested in it. http://blog.kenlet.com/articles/2006/03/31/internationalization-with-the-help-of-google-translate -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.