Current state of Ruby i18n?

[James Britt]

What's the current state of i18n in Ruby?

If I wanted to build a Web site that offered content in multiple
languages for people in various Asian countries could Ruby handle the task?

Is there anything that documents this (i.e., explains the gory details
and gives examples)?



Thanks,


James

 

[Eric Hodel]

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What's the current state of i18n in Ruby?

If I wanted to build a Web site that offered content in multiple
languages for people in various Asian countries could Ruby handle the
task?

Is there anything that documents this (i.e., explains the gory details
and gives examples)?

You'll want to:

$KCODE = 'u'
require 'jcode'

To make string functions multibyte-capable.

Be sure your data store handles UTF-8, and you set the right
content-encoding for your pages.

We've got all kinds of (user entered) multibyte strings on 43 Things,
but haven't yet translated any of our internals.

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[James Britt]

You'll want to:

$KCODE = 'u'
require 'jcode'

To make string functions multibyte-capable.

Be sure your data store handles UTF-8, and you set the right
content-encoding for your pages.

We've got all kinds of (user entered) multibyte strings on 43 Things,
but haven't yet translated any of our internals.

Thanks!

James