Re: ActiveSupport::Multibyte for better Unicode support

On 26/09/2006, at 12:49 AM, Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov wrote:

> On 25-sep-2006, at 5:06, David Goodlad wrote:
>
>> I can't see any real downside to
>> supporting UTF-8 out of the box in Rails.
>
> Tell it to the Japanese and the Chinese railers. I wonder how long
> you will stand before you get your ass served :-)

Why? It's not like Rails supports Japanese or Chinese encodings out  
of the box now. How is going from supporting just ASCII to supporting  
UTF-8 taking anything away from Japanese or Chinese railers?

Like David said, what exactly is the downside to default UTF-8  
support? Who does it hurt, how, and why?

Pete Yandell

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