Re: ActiveSupport::Multibyte for better Unicode support

On 9/24/06, Pete Yandell <pete.yandell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good to know. I'll take this as an endorsement of the idea the UTF8
> should be the default for Rails apps. :)

I have to put in my two cents here.  I can't see any reason why one
_wouldn't_ want to use UTF-8 over plain-ol' ASCII.  It's a totally
different ball game than localization; I just want my users to be able
to input data using their own native characters.  What app doesn't
have a "full name" field for a user?  Shouldn't your users be able to
input their name properly? :)

Besides implementation issues, I can't see any real downside to
supporting UTF-8 out of the box in Rails.  It would sure avoid a lot
of potential issues...

Dave

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Dave Goodlad
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http://david.goodlad.ca/

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