What support does ruby have for internationalization? I have heard that ruby on rails doesn't support a large amount of character sets. I am in the midst of rolling out a international application and need to ofcourse make sure that rails can support every character set possible. Some I need initially are UTF8, Big 5, Shift JIS. Can rails handle this?
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Answers by: Rich Collins | Adam Thorsen | Fear of Fish | skwp
I am currently working on a Ruby on Rails site that needs localisation and multiple character types. Step one is to make sure that Ruby has been unicode enabled:
# UTF-8 support
$KCODE = 'u'
require 'jcode'
Ensure that your SQL databases are also using UTF8 encoding, then choose a localisation tool. I personally use globalize and have had no problems with characters yet:
That didn't format as intended. The require 'jcode' should be on a seperate line.
I will check out globalize, so far my test with unicode_hack are working pretty well.