I am disappointed about the (seeming) lack of Unicode support in Rails. Is there a howto about working the most important limitations? For example, figuring out the length of an entered word: "???".length() will return 6, not 3. So if there is a maximum number of characters a user is allowed to enter, this won''t work as it should -- it treats strings as byte arrays instead of strings. Is there an alternate string package that will treat Unicode Strings as arrays of Characters instead of Bytes - no matter how many bytes are used to encode a Character? Can anyone point me to a HOWTO or tutorial or documentation for how to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Visit - http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseUnicodeStrings they link you to some nice libraries that might be helpful for you. But yes, Rails isn''t that hot-show for unicode Nice day, Dor. Roman Hausner wrote:> I am disappointed about the (seeming) lack of Unicode support in Rails. > Is there a howto about working the most important limitations? For > example, figuring out the length of an entered word: "???".length() will > return 6, not 3. So if there is a maximum number of characters a user is > allowed to enter, this won''t work as it should -- it treats strings as > byte arrays instead of strings. > > Is there an alternate string package that will treat Unicode Strings as > arrays of Characters instead of Bytes - no matter how many bytes are > used to encode a Character? Can anyone point me to a HOWTO or tutorial > or documentation for how to do this?-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
? usually do this with my applications and it works fine! Portuguese Brasil.
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
before_filter :configure_charsets
def configure_charsets
if request.xhr?
@response.headers["Content-Type"] ||= "text/javascript;
charset=iso-8859-1"
else
@response.headers["Content-Type"] ||= "text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1"
end
end
end
"Funciona que ? uma beleza! Abra??o!"
On 6/25/06, Dor Kalev <dor@octava.co.il> wrote:>
> Visit -
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseUnicodeStrings
> they link you to some nice libraries that might be helpful for you.
> But yes, Rails isn''t that hot-show for unicode
> Nice day,
> Dor.
>
> Roman Hausner wrote:
> > I am disappointed about the (seeming) lack of Unicode support in
Rails.
> > Is there a howto about working the most important limitations? For
> > example, figuring out the length of an entered word:
"???".length() will
> > return 6, not 3. So if there is a maximum number of characters a user
is
> > allowed to enter, this won''t work as it should -- it treats
strings as
> > byte arrays instead of strings.
> >
> > Is there an alternate string package that will treat Unicode Strings
as
> > arrays of Characters instead of Bytes - no matter how many bytes are
> > used to encode a Character? Can anyone point me to a HOWTO or tutorial
> > or documentation for how to do this?
>
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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Roman Hausner wrote:> I am disappointed about the (seeming) lack of Unicode support in Rails. > Is there a howto about working the most important limitations? For > example, figuring out the length of an entered word: "???".length() will > return 6, not 3. So if there is a maximum number of characters a user is > allowed to enter, this won''t work as it should -- it treats strings as > byte arrays instead of strings. > > Is there an alternate string package that will treat Unicode Strings as > arrays of Characters instead of Bytes - no matter how many bytes are > used to encode a Character? Can anyone point me to a HOWTO or tutorial > or documentation for how to do this?Unicode support in Ruby does not exists. I have been to a kind of workshop last week and Julik presented a kick us presentation, you can check the plugin as a start http://julik.nl/code/unicode-hacks/index.html And send a an email to Matsumoto asking when we will have unicode support in Ruby. Good luck Gokhan Arli www.sylow.net -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On 26-jun-2006, at 0:50, Roman Hausner wrote:> I am disappointed about the (seeming) lack of Unicode support in > Rails. > Is there a howto about working the most important limitations? For > example, figuring out the length of an entered word: "???".length > () will > return 6, not 3. So if there is a maximum number of characters a > user is > allowed to enter, this won''t work as it should -- it treats strings as > byte arrays instead of strings. > > Is there an alternate string package that will treat Unicode > Strings as > arrays of Characters instead of Bytes - no matter how many bytes are > used to encode a Character? Can anyone point me to a HOWTO or tutorial > or documentation for how to do this?There is exactly such a package - it''s behaviour is a little unstable now, because as soon as your diacritics or parts of a ligature (of compound chars) cannot be normalised into one codepoint it does what you don''t really expect. Try unicode_hacks. We are trying to get them into Rails but as of now I haven''t seen any interest on the part of the core. -- Julian ''Julik'' Tarkhanov please send all personal mail to me at julik.nl
Julian ''Julik'' Tarkhanov skrev:> > Try unicode_hacks. We are trying to get them into Rails but as of now > I haven''t seen any interest on the part of the core. >Apparently the use of unicode in an application is "application specific behaviour". The Rails core team take many good decisions but the decision to not include unicode support in the core is just insane. Everyone wanting to use unicode will do it more or less the same. Not having it in the core is to break DRY on a universal level. Yes, I know this can probably be done as a plugin. The problem with plugins that will dig as deep into the core as a plugin like this will probably break on every new version of the core so the plugin will always lag behind the core versions (maybe not long but it will be enough). If inside the core someone will have the responsibility to take care of it before releasing a new version of the core. No? /Marcus ps. They (Rails core team) might have reconsidered to actually include unicode support in Rails. If that is the case I take back what I said
> Try unicode_hacks. We are trying to get them into Rails but as of > now I haven''t seen any interest on the part of the core. > > --Which one should we install? - The plugin at http://julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/unicode_hacks/ or - The ActiveSupport patch at http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5396 or both? :) And how do we install both? :)
On 27-jun-2006, at 9:15, Dmitrii Dimandt wrote:>> Try unicode_hacks. We are trying to get them into Rails but as of >> now I haven''t seen any interest on the part of the core. >> >> -- > > Which one should we install? > - The plugin at > http://julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/unicode_hacks/ > or > - The ActiveSupport patch at http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5396The plugin is being updated all the time. The patch is more for the rails-core to evaluate, but we will eventually get to updating it as well. -- Julian ''Julik'' Tarkhanov please send all personal mail to me at julik.nl