Re: ActiveSupport::Multibyte for better Unicode support

On 26 Sep 2006, at 24:30 , Pete Yandell wrote:
> 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?

There's no downside to default UTF-8 support, but it would be nice if  
switching from the default to Shift-JIS or EUC is going to be as easy  
as changing $KCODE = 'utf-8' to  $KCODE = 'sjis'.

If you want this, please add Shift-JIS and/or EUC support in  
ActiveSupport::Multibyte and send us a patch.

Kind regards,
Thijs

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