Current state of Ruby i18n?

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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)?

Thanks,

James

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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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On 29 Jan 2005, at 13:17, James Britt wrote:

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)?

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Eric Hodel wrote:

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On 29 Jan 2005, at 13:17, James Britt wrote:

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.

Thanks!

James